Rural Mexico by Nathan LaSelle Whetten (1900-1984) - 1948

xxv+671+[23 Plate] pages with frontispiece, charts, tables, maps, appendices, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Foreword by Manuel Gamio. From the library of professor Robert Van Kemper. First edition. A land of tremendous contrasts: high mountains ranges great arid wastes, dense tropical jungles . . .illiterate, isolated peoples "united" by ox cart and donkey, struggling for modern educational opportunities . . . a beautiful and modern capital city surrounded by an agrarian primitivism - this is the country of Nathan Whetten's LRural Mexico. In this pioneer effort toward an over-all rural sociology of Mexico, Whetten analyzes the great social problems facing the country and points the way to the solution of some. Robert V. Kemper, born in San Diego, California, on November 21, 1945, resides in Dallas, Texas, where he is Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1971 from the University of California at Berkeley and spent the academic year 1971-1972 there as a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mexican American Studies before joining the SMU faculty. At SMU, he has served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology, President of the Faculty Senate, and member of the University Board of Trustees. His research interests include migration and urbanization, history of anthropology, community development, tourism, Mexico, and the United States. His numerous publications include Anthropologists in Cities (1974), Migration and Adaptation: Tzintzuntzan Peasants in Mexico City (1977), Migration Across Frontiers: Mexico and the United States (1979), Chronicling Cultures: Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology (2002), and Urban Life (5th ed., 2010). He has served as President of the Society for Latin American Anthropology and the Society for Urban Anthropology, as well as Editor of Human Organization, Editor for Social-Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropologist, and Associate Editor for Urban Anthropology. Condition: Kemper's stamp to front paste-down. Corners and spine heal bumped else very good.