Excavations at La Venta Tabasco, 1955. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Drucker   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Through the generosity of the National Geographic Society, funds were made available to undertake the project. Melvin M. Payne, senior assistant secretary of the National Geographic Society, has been, from the beginning of the work through the completion of this report, most helpful, and a large measure Of credit must go to him. The University of California and the Smithsonian Institution con tributed to the project, chie?y in the form of scientific personnel and equipment. We were able to work at La Venta from mid-january to the latter part of May 1955. The actual excavations were carried on from the beginning Of February to mid-may; the initial 2 or 3 weeks were devoted to building camp and clearing the jungle from the part of the site we intended to work in; the last couple of weeks were devoted to filling in our excavations and to breaking camp. Technical personnel included, in addition to Drucker and Heizer, who were in charge of operations, Ing. Eduardo Contreras, assistant archeologist of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, and Robert J. Squier, research assistant in archeology, Uni versity of California.

Native Brotherhoods: Modern Intertribal Organizations on the Northwest Coast. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Drucker   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I am not arguing that the foregoing is the only valid usage Of the term acculturation. My aim is simply to explain how I am using it. What this study is about, therefore, is to try to see what certain groups Of people trapped in the compulsive bight of acculturation think about it, and try to do about it.

The Northern and Central Nootkan Tribes. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Drucker   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The material for this report was collected in 1935 — 36 with the assistance of a pre-doctoral Research Fellowship granted by the Social Science Research Council. The research problem was to de termine the bases of social stratification. I had no intention of diverging from the specific problem to collect data for a general ethnography, but I soon found that the societal factors could not be isolated without forcing the material. For example, with various economic property rights as important as they were to the status of the nobles, or chiefs, the fact that a chief owned a salmon trap of one kind, and a man of lesser rank a trap of another type, makes it necessary for the field worker to learn what the different types of salmon traps were to see if there was anything of significance in the two specific cases he has recorded. Again, one cannot evaluate the significance of the ownership of particular ritual privileges by chiefs without knowing the whole ceremonial. Before long I found that my quest for the basic forces of social organization were leading me into all phases of the culture: economy, technology, ceremonialism, and the rest, so I ended up trying to round out the picture. The aim, however, was always to relate these topics to the problems of the social structure.