Little Community and Peasant Society and Culture

The Little Community draws on the author's own notable studies of the villages of Tepoztlan and Chan Kom to explore the means by which scientists try to understand human communities. It contains, wrote Margaret Mead, "the essence of Robert Redfield's multifaceted contributions to the place of community studies in social science." It outlines a speculative foundation for the emergence of anthropology from the study of isolated primitive tribes.