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Show 33 book, Forjando Patria. He is the founder of and occupies the highest post in the Department of Anthropology, and he picks the Valley of Teotihuacan as a representative zone in which his "integrated approach," so clearly defined, can be applied. As a result of the work carried out there, the monumental work, La Poblacion del Valle de Teotihuacan appears, the practical result of his new and scientific guidance. The magazines he founded, his archaeological works, where "archaic" is clarified, his academic degrees, his family life, all this gives us a clear idea of the very full life of Dr. Gamio, magnificently summed up in this brief article. This work has been published before in the book Estudios Antropologicos publicados en homenaje al Dr. Manuel Gamio, but it has been brought up to date for its republication, and that referring to the last six years of his life has been written by Dr. Miguel Leon-Portilia, his collaborator during this time, to complement Dr. Comas' article. Davalos Hurtado, Eusebio. "Oracion Funebre," America Indigena, XX (October, 1960), pp. 289-290. English summary: This funeral oration, delivered by Dr. Eusebio Davalos Hurtado, Director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico, on July 17, 1960, at the grave of Dr. Manuel Gamio expresses in broad outlines the significance of Maestro Gamio's work to Mexican anthropology and to Continental Indianism. Together with the great enterprise, theoretical and practical at the same time, resulting from Gamio's ideas, the author speaks of that other trait so characteristic of Dr. Gamio: "He was an honest and just man who never accepted compromises: Gamio is the example for all Mexican anthropologists." Gamio de Alba, Margarita. "El Dr. Manuel Gamio y el Proyecto de la Mujer Indigena," America Indigena, XX (October, 1960), pp. 291-293. English summary: During his last years as Director of this Institute, Dr. Manuel Gamio planned and initiated a project aimed at improving the living conditions of the Indian woman. The author of this study, anthropologist Margarita Gamio de Alba, Dr. Gamio's daughter, offers a general presentation of the importance of this project and the various stages of its realization. As de Alba points out, this project demonstrates once again Dr. Gamio's deep concern for solving the problems of the Indian population not only generally, but especially those sectors most in need of assistance, as in the case of the native women. The concrete results of this project have been, in addition to the publication of various |