La Merced. Estudio Ecologico y Social de una Zona de la Ciudad de Mexico

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Author: Enrique Hugo García Valencia from the library of professor Robert V Kemper Year: 1965 Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH) Place: Mexico City Description: 383 pages with photographs, maps (many folding), tables (many folding) and bibliography. Quarto (10 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in half leather with four raised spine bands in gilt lettering to spine over pebble brown boards with original wrappers bound in. Serie Investigaciones 11. From the library of Robert Van Kemper. First edition limited to 1000 copies. This work is an extensive study of Mexico City, broken down in districts with a social break out of each with a history of each district. The most thorough work on this subject extant. 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

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