SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 5 



INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHEOPOLOGY 



As stated above, Dr. Julian H. Steward, anthropologist, on Septem- 

 ber 1, 1943, became Director of the Institute of Social Anthropology, 

 an autonomous unit of the Bureau reporting directly to the Secretary. 

 As Dr. Steward was instructed in the official order establishing the 

 Institute to report to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 there are presented here brief abstracts from Dr. Steward's reports 

 to Dr. Wetmore, Acting Secretary. 



The Institute of Social Anthropology was first conceived in July 

 1942 and a project for its work was placed before the Interdepartmen- 

 tal Committee for Cooperation with the American Kepublics in Au- 

 gust of that year. Its stated purpose was to carry out cooperative 

 training in anthropological teaching and research with the other 

 American republics. For the fiscal year 1944, $60,000 was made avail- 

 able for the work of the Institute by transfer of funds from the State 

 Department appropriation. 



In September 1943 the Director visited Mexico and established the 

 terms of an agreement for the work of the Institute with the authori- 

 ties of the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia and the Instituto 

 Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, submitting this to the Depart- 

 ment of State in late September. After some months of delay encoun- 

 tered in completing the agreement, Dr. George M. Foster, engaged by 

 the Institute as anthropologist in charge of the work in Mexico, pro- 

 ceeded to that country in May and started work in cooperation with 

 the organizations mentioned above. Dr. Donald D. Brand also repre- 

 sented the Institute in Mexico as cultural geographer. 



No formal agreement has yet been entered into for similar work 

 in Peru. Nevertheless, Dr. John Gillin, appointed by the Institute in 

 January 1944 as anthropologist, commenced work in that country on 

 an informal basis. The remaining 6 months of the fiscal year were 

 devoted to reconnaissance and teaching at Cuzco and Trujillo. 



A memorandum agreement for cooperative work in Colombia was 

 submitted early in 1944, but at the close of the fiscal year it had not 

 yet been reported out. 



A new series in social anthropology entitled "Publications of the 

 Institute of Social Anthropology" was started with two papers, which 

 went to the printer just before the close of the fiscal year. No. 1 was 

 on "Houses and House Use of the Sierra Tarascans," by Kalph L. 

 Beals, Pedro Carrasco, and Thomas McCorkle; No. 2 was entitled 

 "Cheran, a Sierra Tarascan Village," by Kalph L. Beals. 



