Robert Redfield

Robert Redfield was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist, whose ethnographic work in Tepoztlán, Mexico, is considered a landmark of Latin American ethnography. He was associated with the University of Chicago for his entire career: all of his higher education took place there, and he joined the faculty in 1927 and remained there until his death in 1958, serving as Dean of Social Sciences from 1934 to 1946. Redfield was a co-founder of the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, alongside other prominent Chicago professors Robert Maynard Hutchins, Frank Knight, and John UIrich Nef. ^{Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (d. 1958)}

4 December 1897

Born on the same birth day (4 December): Bernard King • Daniel Eberlin • Gabriel Lundberg • Hasan al-Askari • Ivan Belikov • Jay-Z • John Cotton (minister) • Jules Armand Dufaure • Marisa Tomei • Nathan Douglas • Peta Hiku • Samuel Butler (novelist) • Sergey Bubka • Tadahito Iguchi • Vinnie Dombroski

Born in the same month (December 1897): Albert Aalbers • Alfredo Bracchi • Drew Pearson (journalist) • Fletcher Henderson • Gershom Scholem • Hermione Gingold • Ivan Bagramyan • Kurt Schuschnigg • Margaret Chase Smith • Nunnally Johnson • Rewi Alley • Ronald Skirth • Ville Pörhölä • Väinö Sipilä • William Gropper