The Ethnographic Moment Author:Robert Redfield, F.G. Friedmann Robert Redfield challenged anthropology’s focus on a static model of the isolated primitive community, pointing out the dynamic nature of the “little communities” he studied in Mesoamerica. The present volume covers the years from 1952 to 1958, the last of Redfield’s life. It focuses solely on his study of peasant communities, lacking in much of... more » Redfield’s previously published work. At the core of the book is his correspondence with the philosopher-humanist F. G. Friedmann, which played an important role in Redfield’s conceptualization of the complex urban-rural continuum that characterizes the peasant’s world.« less