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Show 121 Caso, Alfonso. "Preparacion de tecnicos para el desarrollo de la comunidad," Anuario Indigenista, XXVIII, (December, 1968), pp. 269- 275. English Summary: The author, Director of the National Indian Institute of Mexico, relates how, since the Institute was founded, it was clear that it was indispensable to have a group of technicians trained in community development. Since it was an anthropological problem it was felt and so carried into effect that the Directors of the Institute's Coordinating Centers should be social anthropologists trained in the National School of Anthropology. The results were good on many occasions, but deficient in others because the community development expert is not a scientific investigator but an administrator, capable of applying his scientific knowledge in achieving a practical development and raising a community to higher cultural levels. To complete the training of the social anthropologists in aspects unknown to him, to prepare experts in Indianism, to train professional people entrusted with the various tasks that the Coordinating Center must carry out in Indianist policy, the Institute has created courses where an attempt has been made to give the future technicians a general, but adequate, preparation in anthropology, economy, law and administration, as well as a general idea of what education, health and other subjects should be with relation to the Indian communities. The study plan includes four semesters, examinations and field work. The complete study plan is given in the last section of the article. Nolasco, Margarita. "Cambio en la tecnologia agricola y poblacion indigena," Anuario Indigenista, XXVIII, (December, 1968), pp. 244-254. English Summary: Rural Sociology and Social Anthropology have unfortunately directed their attention only in part to the way in which the Indian societies have reacted to the impact caused by the introduction of traits and elements of modern Western culture, above all in the field of agriculture, emphasizing one or another of the aspects of the problem according to the interests of each investigator. This article takes up the technological changes, analyzing various situations in which the change was a failure, since in this way it is possible to understand some of the mechanisms of agricultural extension in the cross-cultural system. After analyzing and discussing nine cases of agricultural, technological changes (4 in Mexico, 2 in Peru, 1 in Bolivia, 1 in Venezuela and 1 in the United States), the author concludes that they all have much in common methodologically. Among other things, because all the plans were made as if they were to be applied in a social vacuum and all the efforts were oriented toward achieving success in the technical field but none in the social. It was forgotten |