Name George Foster | Role Anthropologist | |
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Died May 18, 2006, Berkeley, California, United States 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
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.