Kutsche, Paul, 1927-

Ethnographic fieldwork in Cañones, a small agricultural community located in Rio Arriba County, northern New Mexico, began in October 1966. The project was largely funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and with sponsorship/support from Colorado College. The majority of the fieldwork was conducted between 1966 and 1968, although the project continued at a slower pace through the 1970's, and Kutsche revisited Cañones in 1990 and 1991. The primary research resulted in the 1981 publication, Cañones Values, Crisis, and Survival in a Northern New Mexico Village by Paul Kutsche and John Van Ness. The field team consisted of Paul Kutsche (Principal Investigator), John R. Van Ness, Kathy Krusnik, and Alice Higman Reich. Kutsche was associate professor of anthropology at Colorado College at the time. He has a B.A. in history from Harvard, MA in anthropology from University of Michigan, and Ph. D in anthropology from University of Pennsylvania. Van Ness, a former student of Kutsche, was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania at the time. Krusnik was a sophomore at Colorado College when she became involved in the project. Reich was a candidate for her M.A. in anthropology at the University of Chicago when she joined the project. Goals of the project were to provide a thorough ethnographic description of a Spanish-American village in northern New Mexico, to analyze political and social integrating forces in village culture, to train undergraduate students in ethnographic field techniques.

From the description of Paul Kutsche papers from the Cañones ethnographic field research project, 1888-1996 (bulk 1966-1968). (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 57218458

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