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data available on any comparable area in Latin America. One large 

 monograph on the Tarascan area has already been published, and three 

 more will follow in 1947. Six student papers of from 100 to 200 

 manuscript pages are also being prepared for publication in Spanish 

 by the Escuela. 



Peru. — Dr. F. Webster McBryde, cultural geographer, was assigned 

 in September 1945 to take charge of the Institute work in Peru. 

 Harry Tschopik, Jr., continued his work in Peru throughout the year. 



The accomplishments can be shown best by a resume of the work since 

 it began early in 1944. At this time, Peru had no institution devoted 

 essentially to social science teaching and research, and its geographical 

 society was requesting advice from the United States about its pro- 

 posed reorganization. The cooperation of the Institute has helped 

 the Ministry of Education of Peru to establish a well-financed national 

 center of social science, the Instituto de E'studios Etnologicos. The 

 Instituto, dedicated to teaching, research, and publication, is a most 

 important development, because for the first time Peru can obtain 

 scientific information on her native peoples, who are the predominant 

 element in her contemporary population. The staff of the Peruvian 

 office of the Institute of Social Anthropology has given lectures at the 

 Universities of Cuzco and Trujillo, and courses in geography and an- 

 thropology are planned for the Instituto, thus enabling Peruvian stu- 

 dents to obtain training in United States techniques of social science. 

 Dr. McBryde has helped in the reorganization of the geographical 

 society and has advised on changes in the geography curriculum in 

 San Marcos University in Lima. 



The Institute staff has carried out extensive research among Peru- 

 vian coastal and central highland communities. The latter project, 

 done in cooperation with three Peruvian scientists, involved 36 man- 

 months and included 30 different communities. The data will be 

 published in both Spanish and English in several monographs, two of 

 which already are in press. They not only represent significant con- 

 tributions to knowledge on heretofore little-known groups, but also 

 will be very useful to Peruvian authorities interested in such practical 

 problems as that of obtaining laborers for the high Andean mines 

 and that of colonizing sparsely populated areas of eastern Peru, a 

 matter of prime importance to the agricultural experimental stations. 

 At the request of the Peruvian-Bolivian educational commission, a 

 survey will be made of the settlement patterns of the altiplano to 

 provide a basis for the establishment of rural schools. 



The importance of these research results has been acknowledged and 

 stressed by the Minister of Education in a speech before the Peruvian 

 Congress. 



