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The Ethnographic Moment (Paperback)
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The first fifty years of the twentieth century were a time of
ferment in American anthropology. American ethnographic work
evolved from the "salvage" work of professionals affiliated with
museums who undertook to document with artifacts and testimony the
threatened traditional way of life among the Native American
tribes, to the establishment of anthropology as a science,
represented in university departments, that sought to describe the
"ethnographic present" of isolated primitive peoples, often in
distant parts of the world. By the beginning of the 1950s, cultural
anthropology discovered the peasant. Robert Redfield, himself a
leading figure in this paradigm shift, challenged anthropology's
focus on a static model of the isolated primitive community,
pointing out the dynamic nature of the "little communities" he
studied in Mesoamerica. These were not isolated communities, but
rather local, traditional cultures located well within the sphere
of a complex urban culture. In order to distinguish the "great
tradition" deriving from urban centers from the "little tradition"
of a more primitive culture, Redfield believed anthropology needed
to refer to other disciplines, such as theology, philosophy,
economics, and sociology. In other words, anthropology had to
develop from the collection of material artifacts to a concern with
the immaterial realm of values and ideas. This collection of essays
and previously unpublished papers, The Ethnographic Moment, tells
the story of a remarkable chapter in Redfield's pioneering efforts
on what was then an anthropological frontier. The present volume
covers the years from 1952 to 1958, the last of Redfield's life. It
focuses solely on his study of peasant communities. At the core of
the book is his correspondence with the philosopher-humanist F. G.
Friedmann, who played an important role in Redfield's
conceptualization of the complex urban-rural continuum that
characterizes the peasant's world. The volume also includes an
autobiographical introduction by Friedmann that illuminates both
his own writings and the humanistic background that motivated his
study of peasantry.
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