Word: projected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DURING THE spring, they hide it under a starred upper-level Soc Rel course description. During the summer, they call it the Harvard Field Studies Program. But the Chiapas Project--its director calls it a "perfect anthropological laboratory"--is an on-going and well-loved enterprise that belies its forbidding catalogue number and stodgy label...
Evon Z. Vogt, professor of Social Anthropology and director of the Project, says that it was the countryside that first attracted him to the area. His office is lined with blown-up photographs of tall pines and mountains rising above clouds, and he has hundreds of slides of very impressive scenery...
Vogt was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford at the time, and he applied for a "small grant" from the Center to develop a project near San Cristobal las Casas, former capital of the state. The first group of students did not go down until summer, 1957. By then, the National Institute of Mental Health was financing the Project...
...PROJECT was very different then--Vogt calls 1957-1960 "Phase I." The Indians believed that white men would kill them to make lard to oil their machines, and they were so frightened and suspicious that they would run when approached. Vogt recalls that the Americans "were just as frightened as the Indians" and spent much of that first summer building a house for themselves and observing from a distance...
...Phase II" began. The Carnegie Corporation offered to finance the Project as part of its worldwide research program in culture change. Columbia and Cornell were also invited to participate in the program, and the first undergraduates were accepted to do field work. The modern Chiapas Project began taking shape. Field workers learned Tzotzil, the Indian language, and lived with native families rather than in houses they built themselves. The increased contact paid off--the Indians began to trust the anthropologists enough to believe that their presence would cause them no harm...