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Politics of Social Research
Politics of Social Research addresses itself to the question of the behavior appropriate for social scientists conducting research sponsored by or otherwise involving government agencies--our own and those of other countries. The simple patriotism that suggests that social scientists, like other citizens, should not hesitate to put their skills at the service of their government is questioned here and by practitioners. This is partly because of outright disagreement with government policies and partly because of the threat to independence posed by massive government funding. As this book plainly shows, the problems are especially acute for social scientists working abroad, where they are vie...
Cherán: a Sierra Tarascan Village
First published in 1946, Ralph L. Beal's Cheran: A Sierra Tarascan Village is a classic study of a Tarascan Indian community on the verge of modernization within Mexico. Situated in west-central Mexico, Cheran was one of the most isolated mountain towns until about 1940, when a highway connected it to larger cities. With Cheran poised for rapid modernization, Beals & other anthropologists arrived in 1940 to begin an intensive study of the Tarascan community & its five thousand inhabitants before their lives were inextricably altered by modern life. After two years of gathering data about Cheran's geography, agriculture, manufacturing, food use, government, religious ceremonies, fiestas, & ge...
The Rebel Scribe
Carleton Beals was among America’s most distinctive foreign correspondents. His colorful, combatively critical reporting of U.S. intervention in Latin America had a fearless energy and authority that won him millions of readers. He interviewed the Nicaraguan rebel leader Sandino in the camp from which he fought thousands of U.S marines in 1928, covered two revolutions in Cuba (1933 and 1959), and interpreted the Mexican Revolution for American readers. Beals’s dispatches and features appeared regularly in the Nation, New Republic, Current History and the Progressive, and often in the New York Times. Time magazine called him “the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin...
