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George M. Foster

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According to Wikipedia, George McClelland Foster Jr. was an American anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for contributions on peasant societies and as one of the founders of medical anthropology. He served as president of the American Anthropological Association . And was elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He received the 1982 Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology in 2005. A festschrift in his honor was published in 1979. He was married to the linguist Mary LeCron Foster, and in 1997 the U.C. Berkeley anthropology library was renamed the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library in their honor.

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George M. Foster 's Published Works

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Peasant Society and the Image of Limited Good (1965) (803)
Disease Etiologies in Non-Western Medical Systems (1976) (424)
The Anatomy of Envy: A Study in Symbolic Behavior [and Comments and Reply] (1972) (405)
The Dyadic Contract: A Model for the Social Structure of a Mexican Peasant Village1 (1961) (195)
Relationships between Spanish and Spanish-American Folk Medicine (1953) (177)
The dyadic contract in Tzintzuntzan, II : patron-client relationship (1963) (116)
Culture and Conquest: America's Spanish Heritage. (1960) (98)
On the Origin of Humoral Medicine in Latin America (1987) (95)
What Is Folk Culture (1953) (88)
Cofradía and Compadrazgo in Spain and Spanish America (1953) (87)
South seas cruise: a case study of a short-lived society. (1986) (79)
Life-Expectancy of Utilitarian Pottery in Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, Mexico (1960) (76)
Long-Term Field Research in Social Anthropology (1976) (62)
Culture and conquest : America's Spanish heritage (1962) (60)
Culture and Conquest: America's Spanish Heritage (1961) (55)
The Potter's Wheel: An Analysis of Idea and Artifact in Invention (1959) (40)
Community development and primary health care: Their conceptual similarities 1 (1982) (36)
A Second Look at Limited Good (1972) (35)
Bureaucratic aspects of international health agencies. (1987) (33)
Image of Limited Good, or Expectation of Reciprocity? [and Comments and Reply] (1975) (32)
Speech Forms and Perception of Social Distance in a Spanish-Speaking Mexican Village (1964) (26)
the validating role of humoral theory in traditional Spanish‐American therapeutics (1988) (24)
Some Implications of Modern Mexican Mold-Made Pottery (1948) (21)
Contemporary pottery techniques in Southern and Central Mexico (1955) (20)
Archaeological Implications of the Modern Pottery of Acatlán, Puebla, Mexico (1960) (17)
Life in a Mexican Village: Tepoztlán Restudied. Oscar Lewis (1952) (17)
Treasure tales, and the image of the static economy in a Mexican peasant community (1964) (17)
The Coyotepec "Molde" and Some Associated Problems of the Potter's Wheel (1959) (17)
Sierra Popoluca folklore and beliefs (1945) (15)
The Folk Economy of Rural Mexico with Special Reference to Marketing (1948) (14)
Resin‐Coated Pottery in the Philippines (1956) (12)
Multivariate analysis of surface water characteristics in the summer regime of the western Irish Sea (1976) (11)
VIBRATION AND DEFLECTION OF ROLLED-BEAM AND PLATE-GIRDER BRIDGES (1956) (11)
THE GEOGRAPHICAL, LINGUISTIC, AND CULTURAL POSITION OF THE POPOLUCA OF VERACRUZ (1943) (10)
Limited Good or Limited Goods: Observations on Acheson (1974) (10)
Pottery-Making in Bengal (1956) (10)
The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine (1999) (9)
Foster's Reply to Kaplan, Saler, and Bennett (1966) (9)
Guidelines to community development programs. (1955) (9)
Ultra-violet absorption characteristics of waters in an industrialized estuary (1977) (8)
A Reinterpretation of Treasure Tales and the Image of Limited Good (1976) (8)
War Stories from Two Enemy Tribes (1939) (7)
Stature as a Measure of Effects of Environmental Change (1976) (7)
INDIGENOUS APICULTURE AMONG THE POPOLUCA OF VERACRUZ (1942) (7)
CHAPTER 2 Curers and Their Cures in Colonial New Spain and Guatemala: The Spanish Component (2001) (6)
Sierra Popoluca Kinship Terminology and Its Wider Relationships (1949) (5)
TEST ON ROLLED-BEAM BRIDGE USING H20-S16 LOADING (1951) (5)
EDWARD WINSLOW GIFFORD 1887–1959 (1960) (5)
The Feixes of Ibiza (1952) (4)
Humoral Pathology in Spain and Spanish America (1978) (4)
Bureaucratic Aspects of International Health Programs (2009) (4)
Modern Yucatecan Maya Pottery Making. Raymond H. Thompson. Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, No. 15, Salt Lake City, 1958. x+157 pp., 48 figs. $2.50. (1959) (4)
His fourth book of occult philosophy (1979) (3)
Methods of Studying Mexican Peasant Personality: Rorschach, Tat and Dreams (1970) (3)
Rocket ozone sounding network data (1978) (3)
Las "feixes" de Ibiza (1952) (3)
Report on An Ethnological Reconnaissance of Spain1 (1951) (3)
Influence of wind upon water quality in Liverpool Bay (1977) (2)
Some Characteristics of Mexican Indian Folklore (1945) (2)
From Tzintzuntzan to the "image of limited good" : essays in honor of George M. Foster (1979) (2)
Notes on the Popoluca of Veracruz (1940) (2)
The New National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City (1965) (1)
Fallen Fontanelle in the American Southwest: a commentary. (1992) (1)
The Civilizations of Ancient America: Selected Papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists . Edited by Sol Tax, with an Introduction by Wendell C. Bennett. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1951. Pp. 328. $7.50.) (1952) (1)
Tarascan Folk Religion: An Analysis of Economic, Social, and Religious Interactions. Pedro Carrasco (1954) (1)
Tarascan Myths & Legends. A Rich and Imaginative “History” of the Tarascans (1971) (0)
Progress Report: State-County Cooperative Agreements on Highway Problems (1962) (0)
Industrialization and Society. Bert F. Hoselitz and Wilbert E. Moore (eds.) (1964) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Tobail: Paraguayan Town. Elman R. Service and Helen S. Service (1955) (0)
Ultra-violet absorbance profiles from the western Irish sea (1976) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Across the Tracks: Mexican‐Americans in a Texas City. Arthur J. Rubel (1967) (0)
Archives Ethnos@@@Revista do Museu Paulista (1949) (0)
State and Local Coordination of Highway Planning in Indiana (1961) (0)
No Frontier to Learning . The Mexican student in the United States. Ralph L. Beals and Norman D. Humphrey. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1957. xi+ 148 pp. $3.25. (1958) (0)
Books Received (1979) (0)
Accomplishments and Objectives of the Indiana State Highway Department (1961) (0)
Book Review:Social Character in a Mexican Village: A Sociopsychoanalytic Study. Erich Fromm, Michael Maccoby (1971) (0)
6. Contemporary Pottery and Basketry (1967) (0)
Instructions to AAA Representatives (1973) (0)
Fieldwork among the Maya: Reflections on the Harvard Chiapas Project (1998) (0)
Comment on Aceves' Review of Brandes' Migration, Kinship, and Community (1977) (0)
GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Most of the World. The Peoples of Africa, Latin America, and the East Today. Edited by Ralph Linton (1949) (0)
Cinco narraciones populares (1957) (0)
Princes of the Earth: Subcultural Diversity in a Mexican Municipality.@@@Tradition and Adaptation: Life in a Modern Yucatan Maya Village. (1976) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The People of the Sierra. J. A. Pitt‐Rivers (1955) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: The Coast Yuki. Edward W. Gifford (1966) (0)
Review Fromm, E. and M. Maccoby: Social Character in a Mexican Village. A Sociopsychoanalytic Study (1970b, English) (1971) (0)
Recollections of Julio Caro Baroja and Julian Pitt-Rivers (2005) (0)
Pima and Papago Indian Agriculture Edward F. Castetter Willis H. Bell (1943) (0)
Zantwijk, R. A. M. van. The social and cultural identity of Tarascan community in Mexico (2011) (0)
Some implications of modern mold-made pottery (1948) (0)
Liners to the sun (1987) (0)
Fm/ cw radar for collision avoidance for off highway vehicles (1987) (0)
STRING‐FIGURE DIVINATION (1941) (0)
Review of Accomplishments for 1961 and Preview of Program for 1962 (1962) (0)
The Fire Walkers of San Pedro Manrique, Soria, Spain (1955) (0)

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