Tecate (Mexico) Ethnographic Field Study files
Festival poster "Tecate En Marcha", circa 1970 (MS 653 Box 1 Folder 12).
Collection area: Borderlands
Collection dates: 1966-1973
Tecate, Mexico and its history, economy, cultural geography, politics, and religion. The study was conducted by anthropology students in the summer of 1967 by the UCLA ethnographic field school of UCLA. Included is biographical data on government and political officials that were interviewed, field notes of interviews and observations, and local printed materials . Interviewees included Father Mendoza, Heliodor Hernandez, Jorge Penaloza, Armando Aguilar, Crispin Valle Castenada, and the Mother Superior of Salva Tierra School. The resulting publication "Tecate : An Industrial Town on the Mexican Border" is also present.
George Roth is a career anthropologist and an ethnohistorian at the Bureau of Indian Affairs. At the time of the study, he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. The 1967 study was conducted as part of a summer field school in anthropology at UCLA.
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