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social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > cultural/social anthropology > Robert Redfield
social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > key people in anthropology > Robert Redfield
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Robert Redfield  

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  • Robert Redfield, prominent anthropologist and Dean of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago from 1934 to 1936, applied a functionalist anthropological perspective to his comparative studies of Mexican communities at different stages of modernization. Born in Chicago, Illinois on December 4, 1897, Redfield was the son of a prominent corporate lawyer, and his mother was the daughter of the Danish consul in Chicago. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Redfield, Robert (1897–1958)]

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