SIXTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT 5 



cooperative training in anthropological teaching and research with 

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

 by transfers from the Department of State totaHng $97,900 from the 

 appropriation "Cooperation with the American Kepublics, 1949." 

 Long-range planning for the Institute became increasingly difficult 

 during the year because of threatened budget reductions for the fiscal 

 year of 1950. Otherwise, the Institute continued to function much 

 as in previous years, and good work was done by aU staff members. 

 Principal activities were as foUow: 



Washington office. — Dr. George M. Foster, Director of the Institute 

 of Social Anthropology, made a 3-weeks trip to Spain in November 

 1948 to investigate the possibility of ethnographical field work in that 

 country, with a view to throwing additional light on the development 

 of the contemporary cultures of Hispanic America. In March 1949 

 Dr. Foster made a second trip to Spain, serving as Smithsonian 

 Institution delegate at the centennial celebration of the Eoyal 

 Academy of Natural, Exact, and Physical Sciences of Madrid. Dr. 

 Gordon R. Willey assumed direction of the Institute of Social Anthro- 

 pology during Dr. Foster's absence. 



Upon the recommendation of the Director a grant-in-aid was ex- 

 tended by the Department of State to bring Dr. Luis Duque G6mez, 

 Director of the Instituto Etnol6gico y Servicio de Arqueologia of 

 Bogotd, Colombia, to the United States for a 3-months period, Oc- 

 tober 1948 to January 1949. An itinerary was arranged by Dr. 

 Foster whereby Dr. Duque was able to visit the larger universities and 

 anthropological centers in the United States both in the East and in 

 the West. Also upon the recommendation of the Director, a like 

 invitation was extended to Dr. Jose Cruxent, Director of the Museo de 

 Ciencias Naturales in Caracas, Venezuela. Dr. Cruxent is expected 

 to arrive in the United States in August 1949. 



Brazil. — Drs. Donald Pierson, sociologist, and Kalervo Oberg, social 

 anthropologist, continued to give courses at the Escola Livre de 

 Sociologia e Politica in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Pierson, assisted by 

 students from the school, completed field work in the caboclo com- 

 munity of "A Vila'' near Sao Paulo, and completed a manuscript 

 describing this work. Dr. Pierson also served as official observer of 

 the United States Government at the UNESCO Conference held in 

 Montevideo, Uruguay, September 6-10, 1948, to consider ways and 

 means of stimulating the development of science in Latin America. 

 He was brought to the United States at the end of June 1949, for con- 

 sultation on future plans for work in Brazil. Dr. Oberg spent July 

 and part of August 1948 in field work among the Indians of the 

 headwaters of the Xingii River. In June 1949 he left on a 3-months 

 trip to the ParessI and Nambiquara groups, northwest of Cuiabd in 



