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Show 47 Olivera De Vasquez, Mercedes. "Notas Sobre La Obra Del Doctor Manuel Gamio," America Indigena, XXV, (October, 1965), pp. 365-381. English Summary: This article presents the scientific career and anthropological work of Dr. Manuel Gamio, who was Director of the Inter-American Institute until his death in 1960. The analysis of his career begins with a resume of his professional life, a record of his studies and his investigations that marked an important point in applied social anthropology in Mexico. Born in a difficult transition period, he is considered to be one of those notable Mexicans who searched within Mexico itself for the example and meaning of the social and cultural movement, in the traditionally forgotten or scorned personality, in the countenance that had been relegated for centuries, while Europe supplied precepts that, when they were followed in Mexico, were incapable of solving national problems, born of a particular way of being. The author emphasized Gamio's principal concern-that of making a true national entity of Mexico, enriched by the forces that he found latent and passive, forces that had to be awakened to create a new and vigorous country. His Indianism, the result of investigating reality, was always directed toward taking up the most important social and economic problems of the moment, in order to base all action on the raising of the material levels that would later support cultural and psychological aspirations. The author brings out Gamio's work through his study "La Poblacion del Valle de Teotihuacan" and as Director of the Inter- American Indian Institute where he concerned himself with the discussion, propagation and analysis of Indianist thinking throughout America and with the constant exchange of reports of Indian life and the methods for improving their economic and social conditions. As an appendix to this study, she adds a selected bibliography of Dr. Manuel Gamio, composed of 39 references from 1913 to 1956. Villa Rojas, Alfonso. "Department of Anthropological Investigations of the Inter-American Indian Institute," Anuario Indigenista, XXV, (December, 1965), pp. 87-109. The article has Spanish and English translations. It involves the Program of Activities from July, 1965 to June, 1966. The basic aims of this Department are included under four headings: |