Yalalag, una villa Zapoteca Serrana

382 pages with folding maps, tables, illustrations and plates. Octavo (9" x 6 1/2") bound in half leather with five raised spine bands with gilt lettering to spine with original wrappers bound in. From the library of Van Kemper. Serie Cientifica 1. First edition.

Villa Hidalgo Yalalag is a village in Oaxaca, Mexico and the municipal seat of Villa Hidalgo Municipality. It is located near Villa Alta District in the center of the Sierra Norte Region. The town is divided into four neighborhoods. These 4 barrios are: San Juan, Santiago, Santa Catalina, and Santa Rosa.

Robert V. Kemper, born in San Diego, California, on November 21, 1945, resided in Dallas, Texas, where he was Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1971 from the University of California at Berkeley and spent the academic year 1971-1972 there as a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mexican American Studies before joining the SMU faculty. At SMU, he served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology, President of the Faculty Senate, and member of the University Board of Trustees. His research interests included migration and urbanization, history of anthropology, community development, tourism, Mexico, and the United States. His numerous publications include Anthropologists in Cities (1974), Migration and Adaptation: Tzintzuntzan Peasants in Mexico City (1977), Migration Across Frontiers: Mexico and the United States (1979), Chronicling Cultures: Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology (2002), and Urban Life (5th ed., 2010). He has served as President of the Society for Latin American Anthropology and the Society for Urban Anthropology, as well as editor of Human Organization, editor for Social-Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropologist, and associate editor for Urban Anthropology.

Condition: Kemper's stamp to front end paper. Spine bands and ends rubbed else very good.