BI, QUESTIONNAIRE OF THE COMMITTEE ON LATIN AMERICAN 

 ANTHROPOLOGY 



North American Anthropologists with Latin-American Interests 



Key to Personnel File 



Name Date of Birth Single (S), Married (M), Minor Dependents (-x) 

 Position and Institution (or other address) (Exact position needed in order 



to estimate availability). 

 Wife's training: Languages, Study of Anthropology or allied subjects, Field 



trips. 

 Linguistic ability in Spanish, Portuguese, Indian Languages, German, French, 



Italian, etc. Please rate each as follows : 

 i) Native speaker 



2) Adequate 



3) Stumbling 



4) Reading only 



5) Writing 



6) None (if this is significant) 



Anthropological interests. Try to indicate in order of dominance. Arch, 

 (archaeology) ; ethn. (ethnology) ; ling, (linguistics) ; phys. (physical 

 anthropology) ; comm. (community study) ; accul. (acculturation), etc. 



Teaching ability. Offers courses on Latin-America. 

 Rating in terms : 



A) Could be recommended for teaching post. 



B) Little or no teaching experience. 



C) Should not be recommended for teaching post. 

 Field Experience : 



Specific place, country, year, number of months, type work for each. 

 (Please limit to Latin-American field trips. Field work in other parts 

 of the world can be listed under 8 (Qualities) if desirable). 

 Qualities : 



Indicate by number which of the following type posts the individual could 

 be recommended for, or by XYZ if necessary : 



1. Teacher in U. S. (Like Washington school for Army, Navy and Civil 

 personnel. Requires no language but good knowledge of region and 

 subject, teaching ability, sociological approach. 



2. Exchange teacher for Latin- America (such as mentioned for Mexico). 

 Requires adequate language, acceptable personality, etc. 



3. Community study (such as already started by Doob and Rockefeller 

 Committee). Adequate language and training in approach required. 



4. Archaeology (such as Institute of Andean Research Program). Arch, 

 training, some diplomacy, at least stumbling language. 



5. Leading field parties of Latin-Americans. Some language and ex- 

 perience in handling field parties. 



6. Cultural attache or other type of formal position in which protocol is 

 important. 



7. "Tough" ethnology or work in difficult out-of-the-way places. 



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