Margaret Park Redfield

Margaret Park Redfield
A young white woman wearing a bridal veil with a flower crown
Margaret Park Redfield, from a 1920 newspaper
Born
Margaret Lucy Park

December 6, 1898
Lansing, Michigan, United States
DiedFebruary 6, 1977(1977-02-06) (aged 78)
OccupationAnthropologist
SpouseRobert Redfield
Children4, including Lisa Peattie
Parent(s)Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park

Margaret Lucy Park Redfield (December 6, 1898 – February 6, 1977) was an American anthropologist and editor, who worked in Mexico's Yucatán region, and on projects about rural China.

Early life and education

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Margaret Park was born in Lansing, Michigan and raised in Wollaston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park. Her father was a sociology professor at the University of Chicago and Fisk University, and assistant to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute; her mother was an artist, clubwoman, and social worker.[1][2] She studied at Wellesley College for one year, then completed her undergraduate education at the University of Chicago, completing a bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1920.[3]

Career

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Redfield collaborated with her husband Robert Redfield in his work in Mexico and Guatemala,[4] and did some ethnographic projects independently.[5][6] She assisted him and other anthropologists, most notably Fei Xiaotong, in publishing their work.[7][8] She also wrote reviews for American Journal of Sociology.[9][10] After her husband's death, she compiled two collections of his scholarship.[11]

Publications

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  • "Notes on the Cookery of Tepoztlan, Morelos" (1929)[5]
  • "The folk literature of a Yucatecan town" (1935)[6]
  • "Disease and Its Treatment in Dzitas, Yucatan" (1940, with Robert Redfield)[12]
  • Fei Xiaotong, Earthbound China: A Study of Rural Economy in Yunnan (1945, edited by Margaret Park Redfield)[8]
  • "The American Family: Consensus and Freedom" (1946)[13]
  • Fei Xiaotong, China's Gentry: Essays in Rural-Urban Relations (1953, edited by Margaret Park Redfield)[14]
  • Papers of Robert Redfield: Human Nature and the Study of Society (1962, compiled by Margaret Park Redfield)[11]
  • Papers of Robert Redfield: The Social Uses of Social Science (1963, compiled by Margaret Park Redfield)[11]

Personal life and legacy

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Park married fellow anthropologist Robert Redfield in 1920. They had four children, among them Lisa Peattie, Joanna, and James. One son, Robert III or "Tito", died in a tobogganing accident as a boy.[15][16] Her husband died in 1958, and she died in 1977, in Chicago, at the age of 78.[17][18] There is a collection of her papers at the University of Chicago Library.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Park, Clara Cahill". Photographic Archive,The University of Chicago. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  2. ^ Deegan, Mary Jo (March 2006). "The Human Drama Behind the Study of People as Potato Bugs: The Curious Marriage of Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park". Journal of Classical Sociology. 6 (1): 101–122. doi:10.1177/1468795X06061288. S2CID 143664019.
  3. ^ a b "Guide to the Margaret Park Redfield Papers 1916-1975". Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  4. ^ "Chicagoans Off Today for Study Tour of Mexico". Chicago Tribune. November 7, 1926. p. 5. Retrieved February 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b Redfield, Margaret Park (1929). "Notes on the Cookery of Tepoztlan, Morelos". The Journal of American Folklore. 42 (164): 167–196. doi:10.2307/534920. ISSN 0021-8715. JSTOR 534920.
  6. ^ a b Redfield, Margaret Park (1937). The folk literature of a Yucatecan town. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ;no.456.
  7. ^ "Robert Redfield (1897-1958)". Researching Mexico; The University of Chicago Library. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  8. ^ a b Fei, Xiaotong; Redfield, Margaret Park; Zhang, Zhiyi; Yenching-Yunnan Station for Sociological Research, Kunming, China (1945). Earthbound China ; a study of rural economy in Yunnan. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Redfield, Margaret Park (1953). "Review of The Second Sex". American Journal of Sociology. 59 (3): 269–271. doi:10.1086/221332. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2771995.
  10. ^ Redfield, Margaret Park (1947). "Review of Chinese Family and Society". American Journal of Sociology. 52 (5): 464–466. doi:10.1086/220061. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2770850.
  11. ^ a b c Redfield, Robert; Redfield, Margaret Park (1963). The papers of Robert Redfield. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
  12. ^ Redfield, Robert; Redfield, Margaret Park (1940). Disease and Its Treatment in Dzitas, Yucatan. Carnegie Institution of Washington.
  13. ^ Redfield, Margaret Park (November 1946). "The American Family: Consensus and Freedom". American Journal of Sociology. 52 (3): 175–183. doi:10.1086/219981. ISSN 0002-9602. PMID 20276354. S2CID 45044682.
  14. ^ Hummel, Arthur W. (May 1954). "China's Gentry. Essays in Rural-Urban Relations. By Hsiao-Tung Fei. Revised and edited by Margaret Park Redfield. With six life-histories of Chinese Gentry Families Collected by Yung-teh Chow and an Introduction by Robert Redfield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953. Issued in cooperation with the International Secretariat of the Institute of Pacific Relations. V, 290. $5.75". The Journal of Asian Studies. 13 (3): 333–334. doi:10.2307/2942285. ISSN 2326-3067. JSTOR 2942285.
  15. ^ "Obituary for Robert Redfield". Chicago Tribune. February 24, 1938. p. 20. Retrieved February 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Deaths: Robert Redfield Jr., Chicago". Freeport Journal-Standard. February 23, 1938. p. 14. Retrieved February 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Margaret Redfield Dies in Chicago Noted for Study on American Family". The New York Times. February 8, 1977. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  18. ^ "Mrs. Redfield". Rutland Daily Herald. February 8, 1977. p. 4. Retrieved February 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
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