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Show 130 his death he held the position of Chief of the Department of Social Sciences of the Unesco, where he was preparing an extensive and vigorous plan of activities. His publications number more than 200 titles, his splendid work in two volumes Introducao a Antropologia Brasileira being one of the most important. It is not the purpose of this summary, nor would its nature allow it, to judge Dr. Ramos' meritorious work. But in the following lines Dr. E. Schaden offers a brief outline of that work, this being a small tribute which our magazine is glad to publish with its sincere approval, participating in the public ser.timent over this irreparable loss to American science. Editorial. "Anglosajones y Latinoamericanos en la Frontera de Estados Unidos con Mexico," America Indigena, X, No. 3 (July, 1950), pp. 191-194. The Editor believes that Social Scientists and other branches of science should undertake to make complete investigations of the Mexicans and Mexican-Americans living in the border zones between the United States and Mexico; agencies will then be able to put into practice effective measures which may achieve a better understanding between the Anglosaxon and Mexican groups which live together in several parts of the U.S. 1954 Editorial. "Colaborando en la Tarea de Alfabetizacion," America Indigena, XIV, No. 2 (April, 1954), pp. 99-102. In Spanish and English. The Editor proposes to collect magazines, booklets, children's publications, Sunday editions of newspaper, and ads with attractive texts and give them to a central urban office from where they would be shipped to rural zones where volunteers would take charge of circulating them. This type of material is usually discarded and sent to paper mills, and if it were given to the illiterate it would be helpful in teaching them to read and better handle their own lives. 1956 Editorial. "El Problema Linguistico-Cultural," America Indigena. XVI No. 2 (April, 1956), pp. 79-82. The linguistic problem deserves special consideration as being one which has an adverse effect on the development of the aboriginal population of the continent, not only in countries where the autochthonous population prevails' but also in places where it is to be found in a minor proportion. |