Word: projected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chiapas Project has come a long way since that first season in 1957. Although all the students rent rooms in San Cristobal, they alternate their time there with stays of a few days to several weeks in Indian villages. Each has his own project, with seminars and meetings during the summer to coordinate field work, provide supervision and synthesize some of the results. Students live with native families when they are in the field, improving the Tzotzil they studied back in Cambridge and working in either Tzotzil or Spanish (many of the men speak at least some Spanish; almost none...
...TOOK four seasons before the Indian community developed enough confidence in the Project to give the field workers the freedom necessary for a broad, open-ended project. But now, Chiapas students have almost no restrictions on the scope and depth of their project. Another indication of the Project's success is that it has expanded from the original municipio of Zinacantan to a second, Chamula, where working conditions are more sensitive because the people are not thoroughly used to the American presence. Vogt plans to start work in a third municipio soon...
...from Chiapas fills two rooms and several walls on the fourth floor of William James. Much of it is in the form of bound field notes and field reports, as well as some of the 80 monographs and articles, 18 of which are in preparation or in press. The Project files also boast 11 doctoral dissertations, and seven senior theses. A twenty-minute film on the life of Zinacanteco women has just been completed, adding one more dimension to the Project's multimedia facilities (there is also a set of Tzotzil language lab tapes). But by far the most impressive...
...photographs are used not only to study geographic features, but for taking censuses, and mapping trade routes and settlement patterns. Aerial photography was "Phase III" of the Project, financed by NSF in 1966. It is the butt of many jokes--some call it "Vogtie's thing"--but he defends it on the grounds of both teaching and research...
COMBINING teaching with research is the essence of the Chiapas Project. "It's really fifty-fifty," Vogt says. "And that puts us right on the cutting edge of the behavioral sciences." The Project means different things to different participants, but for most of the undergraduates who go every year, much of the program's value lies in the fact that it allows them to conduct research under optimum conditions. The city and the other group members are never far away if they want advice or old friends; most of the Indians with whom students work have been visited before...