Margaret Park Redfield Explained

Margaret Park Redfield
Birth Name:	Margaret Lucy Park
Birth Date:	December 6, 1898
Birth Place:	Lansing, Michigan, United States
Occupation:	Anthropologist
Spouse(S):	Robert Redfield
Children:	4, including Lisa Peattie
Parents:	Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park

Margaret Lucy Park Redfield (December 6, 1898 – February 6, 1977) was an American anthropologist and editor, who worked in Mexico's Yucatán region, and on projects about rural China.

Early life and education

Margaret Park was born in Lansing, Michigan and raised in Wollaston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park. Her father was a sociology professor at the University of Chicago and Fisk University, and assistant to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute; her mother was an artist, clubwoman, and social worker.^{[1] [2]} She studied at Wellesley College for one year, then completed her undergraduate education at the University of Chicago, completing a bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1920.

Career

Redfield collaborated with her husband Robert Redfield in his work in Mexico and Guatemala,^[3] and did some ethnographic projects independently. She assisted him and other anthropologists, most notably Fei Xiaotong, in publishing their work.^[4] She also wrote reviews for American Journal of Sociology.^{[5] [6]} After her husband's death, she compiled two collections of his scholarship.

Publications

• "Notes on the Cookery of Tepoztlan, Morelos" (1929)^[7]
• "The folk literature of a Yucatecan town" (1935)^[8]
• "Disease and Its Treatment in Dzitas, Yucatan" (1940, with Robert Redfield)^[9]
• Fei Xiaotong, Earthbound China: A Study of Rural Economy in Yunnan (1945, edited by Margaret Park Redfield)^[10]
• "The American Family: Consensus and Freedom" (1946)^[11]
• Fei Xiaotong, China's Gentry: Essays in Rural-Urban Relations (1953, edited by Margaret Park Redfield)^[12]
• Papers of Robert Redfield: Human Nature and the Study of Society (1962, compiled by Margaret Park Redfield)^[13]
• Papers of Robert Redfield: The Social Uses of Social Science (1963, compiled by Margaret Park Redfield)

Personal life and legacy

Park married fellow anthropologist Robert Redfield in 1920. They had four children, among them Lisa Peattie, Joanna, and James. One son, Robert III or "Tito", died in a tobogganing accident as a boy.^{[14] [15]} Her husband died in 1958, and she died in 1977, in Chicago, at the age of 78.^{[16] [17]} There is a collection of her papers at the University of Chicago Library.^[18]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Park, Clara Cahill . 2023-02-27 . Photographic Archive,The University of Chicago.
2. Deegan . Mary Jo . March 2006 . The Human Drama Behind the Study of People as Potato Bugs: The Curious Marriage of Robert E. Park and Clara Cahill Park . Journal of Classical Sociology . 6 . 1 . 101–122. 10.1177/1468795X06061288 . 143664019 .
3. News: 1926-11-07 . Chicagoans Off Today for Study Tour of Mexico . 5 . Chicago Tribune . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
4. Web site: Robert Redfield (1897-1958) . 2023-02-27 . Researching Mexico; The University of Chicago Library.
5. Redfield . Margaret Park . 1953 . Review of The Second Sex. . American Journal of Sociology . 59 . 3 . 269–271 . 10.1086/221332 . 2771995 . 0002-9602.
6. Redfield . Margaret Park . 1947 . Review of Chinese Family and Society. . American Journal of Sociology . 52 . 5 . 464–466 . 10.1086/220061 . 2770850 . 0002-9602.
7. Redfield . Margaret Park . 1929 . Notes on the Cookery of Tepoztlan, Morelos . The Journal of American Folklore . 42 . 164 . 167–196 . 10.2307/534920 . 534920 . 0021-8715.
8. Book: Redfield, Margaret Park . The folk literature of a Yucatecan town . 1937 . Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ;no.456.
9. Book: Redfield . Robert . Disease and Its Treatment in Dzitas, Yucatan . Redfield . Margaret Park . 1940 . Carnegie Institution of Washington . en.
10. Book: Fei . Xiaotong . Earthbound China ; a study of rural economy in Yunnan . Redfield . Margaret Park . Zhang . Zhiyi . Yenching-Yunnan Station for Sociological Research . Kunming, China . 1945 . University of Chicago press . Chicago, Ill..
11. Redfield . Margaret Park . November 1946 . The American Family: Consensus and Freedom . American Journal of Sociology . en . 52 . 3 . 175–183 . 10.1086/219981 . 20276354 . 45044682 . 0002-9602.
12. Hummel . Arthur W. . May 1954 . China's Gentry. Essays in Rural-Urban Relations. By Hsiao-Tung Fei. Revised and edited by Margaret Park Redfield. With six life-histories of Chinese Gentry Families Collected by Yung-teh Chow and an Introduction by Robert Redfield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953. Issued in cooperation with the International Secretariat of the Institute of Pacific Relations. V, 290. $5.75. . The Journal of Asian Studies . en . 13 . 3 . 333–334 . 10.2307/2942285 . 2942285 . 2326-3067.
13. Book: Redfield . Robert . The papers of Robert Redfield . Redfield . Margaret Park . 1963 . Univ. of Chicago Press . Chicago.
14. News: 1938-02-24 . Obituary for Robert Redfield . 20 . Chicago Tribune . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
15. News: 1938-02-23 . Deaths: Robert Redfield Jr., Chicago . 14 . Freeport Journal-Standard . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
16. News: 1977-02-08 . Margaret Redfield Dies in Chicago Noted for Study on American Family . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-02-27 . 0362-4331.
17. News: 1977-02-08 . Mrs. Redfield . 4 . Rutland Daily Herald . 2023-02-27 . Newspapers.com.
18. Web site: Guide to the Margaret Park Redfield Papers 1916-1975 . 2023-02-27 . Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.