10 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY 



The Institute of Social Anthropology was created in 1943 as an 

 autonomous unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology to carry out 

 cooperative training in anthropological teaching and research with 

 the other American Republics. During the past year it was financed 

 by transfers from the State Department, totaling $113,150, from the 

 appropriation "Cooperation with the American Eepublics, 1947." The 

 major activities of the Institute of Social Anthropology during the 

 fiscal year 1947 are as follows : 



Washington offtce. — The Institute of Social Anthropology main- 

 tains headquarters in Washington for general planning, direction, and 

 servicing of field projects. Dr. Julian H. Steward, founder and first 

 Director of the Institute, resigned in September 1946 t.o accept a pro- 

 fessorship at Columbia University. He was succeeded by Dr. George 

 M. Foster, previously stationed in Mexico as social anthropologist of 

 the Institute of Social Anthropology. 



Brazil, — Cooperation with the Escola Livre de Sociologia e Politica 

 began October 1, 1945, when Dr. Donald Pierson was assigned as rep- 

 resentative of the Institute of Social Anthropology to Brazil. In 

 February 1946 Dr. Kalervo Oberg was assigned as cultural anthropolo- 

 gist to cooperate with the Escola Livre. 



In effect, the Institute has taken over and expanded a program which 

 was begun under Dr. Pierson in 1940 and which has helped make the 

 Escola Livre one of the most important social-science centers in South 

 America. 



During the fiscal year 1947 Institute of Social Anthropology scien- 

 tists have given seven courses in sociology and anthropology, to sup- 

 plement other courses given by local professors in the general field 

 of the humanities. Advanced students have been given field training 

 both in Mato Grosso among Indian groups, and among the rural 

 peoples in the State of Sao Paulo, some distance from the city. This 

 represents a very considerable educational advance, since for the first 

 time advanced Brazilian students in anthropology and sociology, as 

 a part of their regular courses, have been required to supplement 

 theoretical classroom training with actual field experience. A number 

 of papers by Smithsonian personnel and local students have been 

 published in scientific series or journals other than Smithsonian vol- 

 umes. Two monographs based on field work in 1947 are being pre- 

 pared for publication by Smithsonian personnel in Smithsonian series, 

 and Brazilian students also are preparing field notes for publication 

 in Portuguese. 



Smithsonian staff members have continued to guide the program of 

 translating 200 articles and 13 books from English into Pprtuguese, 



