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Name
  
George Foster


Role
  
Anthropologist

George M. Foster (anthropologist) wwwberkeleyedunewsmediareleases200605image

Died
  
May 18, 2006, Berkeley, California, United States

Education
  
University of California, Berkeley (1941), Northwestern University

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

George M. Foster (October 9, 1913 – May 18, 2006) was an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for contributions on peasant societies (the "principle of limited good" and the "Dyadic Contract") and as one of the founders of medical anthropology.

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Evidence of notability

  • President of the American Anthropological Association (elected 1970).
  • Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences (elected 1976)
  • Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1980)
  • Recipient of the Malinowski Award(1982) from the Society for Applied Anthropology
  • Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology (2005)

    • Festschrift

    Clark, M., R. V. Kemper, and C. Nelson, (eds) (1979) From Tzintzuntzan to the “Image of Limited Good”: Essays in honor of George M. Foster. (Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers No. 55-56). Berkeley, CA: x + 181 pp.

    Selected publications

    Foster, George M. (1960) Culture and Conquest: America’s Spanish Heritage, Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology No. 27. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

    Foster, George M. (1961) The Dyadic Contract: A model for social structure of a Mexican peasant village. Am. Anthropol. 63:1173-1192.

    Foster, George M.(1962) Traditional Cultures and the Impact of Technological Change, New York: Harper & Bros.

    Foster, George M.(1967) Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World, Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

    References

    George M. Foster (anthropologist) Wikipedia
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