Quite independently of Boas, Robert Redfield, based at the University of Chicago, developed a kind of American social anthropology. He was influenced first by the Chicago school of sociology (Louis Wirth and Robert Park [his father-in-law]), and later by Radcliffe-Brown during his tenure at Chicago from 1931-37. Though his ideas generated a great deal of interest and stimulated much productive research, Redfield never succeeded in achieving the clarity and precision that marked British social anthropology.
Redfield, Robert. 1947. The Folk Society. American Journal of Sociology
52:293-308 (3 copies on reserve)
Redfield, Robert. 1941. The Folk Culture of Yucatan. Chicago, IL: Univ. of
Chicago Press pp. 1-57, 338-369 (3 copies on reserve)
Redfield, Robert. 1967. Peasant Society and Culture (orig. 1956) Phoenix Books.
Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press (3 copies on reserve) [N.B. be careful to read
'Peasant Society' and NOT 'The Little Community'. Both are bound together in the same
publication]
Foster, George M. 1953. What is Folk Culture? American Anthropologist 55:159-173
(3 copies on reserve)
Service, Elman R. 1963. Preface, pp. xv-xxix in Profiles in Ethnology. New York:
Harper & Row (4 copies on reserve)
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