An anthropologist's life in the twentieth century
Subtitle: theory and practice at UC Berkeley, the Smithsonian, in Mexico, and with the World Health Organization
By: George M. Foster ; with an introduction by E.A. Hammel. Interviews conducted by Suzanne Riess in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Riess, Suzanne B.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Foster, George McClelland, 1913-; Ishi, d. 1916.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept of Anthropology -- History.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Anthropology -- Faculty.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Anthropology -- Curricula.; Kroeber Hall (Berkeley, Calif.); Anthropologists -- California -- Interviews.; Anthropology -- Study and teaching.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University of California Source of community leaders oral history series.
Description: Family and background, Ottumwa, Iowa; anthropology at Northwestern, Melville Herskovits; Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie; first travel to Mexico; marriage to Mary LeCron, 1938, and trip to Austria; research with Sierra Popoluca, 1940-1941; teaching at Syracuse and UCLA; colleagues and work at Smithsonian Institution, Washington and Mexico: Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Institute of Social Anthropology, 1943-1953, start of long-term field research in Tzintzuntzan, sabbatical in Spain; UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology since 1953: planning Kroeber Hall, course work, administration, expanding faculty, Ph.D. curricula, funding students; American Anthropological Association presidency; sixties, seventies issues of free speech, ethics, Vietnam war; evolution of medical anthropology; community development advisory role for World Health Organizaion, Agency for International Development; discusses field work, writing, students, personal change, beliefs, family, friendships, and some current issues in anthropology.

includes biographical material, recollections of research in Spain and Tzintzuntzan, Mexico, and correspondence relating to Ishi-the last Yahi-remains.