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Sir Robert Redfield was a pioneering U.S. cultural anthropologist who focused on the processes of cultural and social change between folk and urban societies. He defined culture as an organized set of conventional understandings manifested in art and artifacts that are passed down through tradition and characterize a human group. Some of his most notable works included studies of Mexican, Maya, and Yucatan folk cultures as well as analyses of peasant societies and how the primitive world transforms over time.
Sir Robert Redfield was a pioneering U.S. cultural anthropologist who focused on the processes of cultural and social change between folk and urban societies. He defined culture as an organized set of conventional understandings manifested in art and artifacts that are passed down through tradition and characterize a human group. Some of his most notable works included studies of Mexican, Maya, and Yucatan folk cultures as well as analyses of peasant societies and how the primitive world transforms over time.
Sir Robert Redfield was a pioneering U.S. cultural anthropologist who focused on the processes of cultural and social change between folk and urban societies. He defined culture as an organized set of conventional understandings manifested in art and artifacts that are passed down through tradition and characterize a human group. Some of his most notable works included studies of Mexican, Maya, and Yucatan folk cultures as well as analyses of peasant societies and how the primitive world transforms over time.
Sir Robert Redfield (Born Dec. 4, 1897, Chicago Died Oct.
16, 1958, Chicago)
U.S. cultural anthropologist who was the pioneer and, for a number of years, the principal ethnologist to focus on those processes of cultural and social change characterizing the relationship between folk and urban societies. Defines Culture as It is an organized body of conventional understandings manifest in art and artifacts, which, persisting through tradition, characterizes a human group. Works Done: 1930 Tepoztln, a Mexican Village: A Study of Folk Life. 1934 A Maya Village 1941 The Folk Culture of Yucatan. 1953 The Primitive World and Its Transformations. 1955 The Little Community: Viewpoints for the Study of a Human Whole. 1956 Peasant Society and Culture: An Anthropological Approach to Civilization.