Robert Redfield

For other people named Robert Redfield, see Robert Redfield (disambiguation).
Robert Redfield
Born(1897-12-04)December 4, 1897
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedOctober 16, 1958(1958-10-16) (aged 60)
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (JD, PhD)
SpouseMargaret Park Redfield
Children4, including Lisa and James
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago

Robert Redfield (December 4, 1897 – October 16, 1958) was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist, whose ethnographic work in Tepoztlán, Mexico, is considered a landmark of Latin American ethnography.[1] He was associated with the University of Chicago for his entire career: all of his higher education took place there, and he joined the faculty in 1927 and remained there until his death in 1958, serving as Dean of Social Sciences from 1934 to 1946.[2] Redfield was a co-founder of the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, alongside other prominent Chicago professors Robert Maynard Hutchins, Frank Knight, and John UIrich Nef.[3]

  1. ^ Delpar, Helen (2008). Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850–1975. University of Alabama Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-8173-5464-0. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  2. ^ "Robert Redfield–Anthropology". University of Chicago Centennial Catalogues. University of Chicago Library. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  3. ^ "About | John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought". socialthought.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-30.