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Scholarly Monographs

• Notes on the Popoluca of Veracruz.
  MÈxico, DF: Instituto Panamericano de GeografÌa e Historia, Publ. No. 51.

• A Primitive Mexican Economy.
  In: Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, Vol V., Editor A. Irving Hallowell.
  New York, NY: J. J. Augustin, pp. 1-15.
  • Reviewed in:
    • The American Journal of Sociology. July 1943, 49(1): 81.

• Assisted by Gabriel Ospina
  Empire's Children: The People of Tzintzuntzan.
  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Institute of Social Anthropology, Publ. No. 6.
  • Reviewed in:
    • The Hispanic American Historical Review. May 1950, pp. 219-220.
      
      
• With Mary L. Foster.
  Sierra Popoluca Speech.
  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Institute of Social Anthropology, Publ. No. 8.
  • Reviewed in:
    • International Journal of American Linguistics. 16(1): 46.
    • Journal of American Folklore. July-Sept. 1949, 62(245): 336-337.

• Editor.
  A Cross-Cultural Anthropological Analysis of a Technical Aid Program.
  Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, July 25. Mimeographed.
  • Reprinted as:
    • An·lisis antropolÛgico intercultural de un programa de ayuda tÈcnica. MÈxico, DF: Instituto Nacional Indigenista. Mimeographed.

• Contemporary Pottery Techniques in Southern and Central Mexico.
  New Orleans, LA: Tulane University, Middle American Research Institute, Publ. 22:1-48.

• Problems in Intercultural Health Programs.
  New York, NY: Social Science Research Council, Pamphlet No. l2.
  • Reviewed in:
    • American Sociological Review. October 1959, 24(5): 748-749.
  • Reprinted as:
    • Problemas en los programas sanitarios interculturales. MÈxico, DF: Centro Regional de Ayuda TÈcnica, AdministraciÛn de CooperaciÛn Internacional (ICA).

• Culture and Conquest: America's Spanish Heritage. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, No. 27.
  • Reviewed in:
    • American Anthropologist. December 1960, 62(6):1080-1081.
    • Library Journal. January 1, 1961, 86(1): 107.
    • The American Historical Review. July 1961, 66(4): 1149.
    • Ethnohistory. Spring 1961, 8(2): 198-199.
  • Reprinted as:
    • Cultura y conquista: la herencia espaÒola de AmÈrica. Xalapa, Veracruz, MÈxico: Universidad Veracruzana (Biblioteca de la Facultad de FilosofÌa y Letras, l4).
      

• Traditional Cultures and the Impact of Technological Change. New York: Harper & Brothers.
  • Reviewed in:
    • Library Journal. June 1, 1962. 87(11): 2149.
    • Oceania. June 1962, vol 32 no.4, p329-330.
    • Foreign Affairs. October 1962, Vol. 41 No. I. P225.
    • International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 1963, Vol IV, p93.
    • The British Journal of Sociology. December 1963, Vol 14 no. 4, p381-382.
    • Economic Development and Cultural Change. January 1964, Vol. 12, No2, p220-221.
  • Reprinted as:
    • Las culturas tradicionales y los cambios tÈcnicos. MÈxico, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura EconÛmica.
      
    • Las culturas tradicionais e o impacto de tecnologÌa. S“o Paulo: EditÙra Fundo de Cultura.
    • Oude Culturen in Een Technische Wereld. Utrecht, Antwerpen: Aula-Boeken, No. 248.

• Editor.
  Contemporary Latin American Culture: an Anthropological Sourcebook.
  New York, NY: Selected Academic Readings, Inc.
  

• Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World.
  Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
  • Reviewed in:
    • Science. September 15, 1967, 157(3794): 1294-1295.
    • Choice. Nov. 1967, 4(9): 1056.
    • American Anthropologist. August 1968, 70(4): 781-782.
  • Reprinted as:
  • Tzintzuntzan: los campesinos mexicanos en un mundo en cambio. MÈxico, DF: Fondo de Cultura EconÛmica.
    
    
• Co-editor with Jack M. Potter and May N. Diaz.
  Peasant Society: a Reader.
  Boston, MA: Little, Brown.

• Applied Anthropology.
  Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
  Reproduced by UNISA 1980 with special permission of the author for educational and non-commerical use by students of the University of South Africa only.
  • Reviewed in:
    • The Geographical Review. January 1970, 60(1): 146-147.
    • American Anthropologist June 1970, 72(3): 618-620.
  • Reprinted as:
  • AntropologÌa aplicada. MÈxico, DF: Fondo de Cultura EconÛmica.

• Traditional Societies and Technological Change.
  New York: Harper & Row.
  Major revision and new title of Traditional Cultures and the Impact of Technological Change, 1962.
  • Reprinted as:
• Las culturas tradicionales y los cambios tÈcnicos. MÈxico, DF.: Fondo de Cultura EconÛmica.
• Traditional Societies and Technological Change. Bombay and New Delhi: Allied Publishers Private Limited.

• Co-editor with Robert V. Kemper.
  Anthropologists in Cities.
  Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
  • Reviewed in:
    • American Anthropologist. June 1976, 78(2): 448-449.
      
      
• With Robert V. Kemper.
  Introduction: A Perspective on Anthropological Fieldwork in Cities. In 1974, pp. 1-17.
  

• With Barbara G. Anderson.
  Medical Anthropology.
  New York, NY: John Wiley.
  • Reviewed in:
    • Reviews in Anthropology. Summer 1979, 6(3): 341-347.
    • Choice. July/August 1979, 16(5/6): 704.
    • American Anthropologist. March 1980, 82(1): 145-147.
  • Reprinted as:
  • Antropologi Kesehatan. Jakarta: University of Indonesia Press.

• Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World. Revised Edition.
  New York: Elsevier.
  
  
• Co-editor with Thayer Scudder, Elizabeth Colson and Robert V. Kemper.
  Long-Term Field Research in Social Anthropology.
  New York: Academic Press.
  
  
• "Fieldwork in Tzintzuntzan: the First Thirty Years." In l979, pp. l65-l84.

• Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World. Third Edition. Includes a new Afterword, pp. 389-399.
  Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

• Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy: Humoral Medicine in the New World.
  Gordon and Breach.
  • Reviewed in:
    • The Nahua Newsletter. February 1999 27:5-7. Reviewer: Brad R. Huber.
    • Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 1996 70(1): 138-139. (Project Muse - UCB Only).
    • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. December 1996, 2(4):741-743. Reviewer: Ellen Messer.
    • Hispanic American Historical Review. August 1995, 75(3):447-449. Reviewer H.R. Harvey.
    • Anthropos. 1995, 90(1-3): 259. Reviewer: M. Heinrich.

2000

• Los hijos del imperio: la gente de Tzintzuntzan
  Spanish translation of: Empire's children, published in 1948.
  Zamora, Mexico: Colegio de Michoacan, c 2000.

2003

• La cultura tradicional en Espana y America.
  Spanish translation of: Culture and conquest: America's Spanish heritage, published in 1960.
  Sevilla: Signatura, 2003.