Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
1915-1956
Author(s): John Howland Rowe
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Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 60, No. 1, Part 1 (Feb., 1958), pp. 132-140
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134 American Anthropologist [60, 19581
taken by an ethnologist. He estimated that he had material for at least six
volumes of reports. Unfortunately, his death interrupted the publication of
his Chucuito results. He had published a general summary of Aymara culture
in the Handbook of South American Indians (1946), the texts of four Aymara
folk tales (1948), a study of pottery making at Chucuito in historical perspec-
tive (1950), and a detailed monograph on Aymara magic, written as his Ph.D.
dissertation at Harvard (1951); a second monograph, on Aymara material cul-
ture, was partly written when he died. He also published two popular articles
on his adventures at Chucuito (1955).
In 1942 Harry undertook some intelligence work for the U. S. government,
and the Tschopiks moved to Arequipa. Harry continued to work on the Chu-
cuito project, however, and made several further visits to the town.
Early in 1945 Harry succeeded John Gillin as the Representative in Peru
of the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution. The
plans drawn up between Julian H. Steward, the Director of the Institute, and
Luis E. Valcircel, Peruvian Minister of Education, called for a survey of
highland communities in central Peru and an intensive study of one with a
culture of mestizo type. Harry was in charge of the field program, assisted by
Jorge C. Muelle, Gabriel Escobar, and Jose M. B. Farfin. This team spent the
months of April and May, 1945, visiting fourteen communities in the de-
partments of Pasco, Junin, Huancavelica, and Ayacucho to make a survey of
regional cultural variation; Tschopik, Muelle, and Escobar then devoted
about a year to a detailed study of the town of Sicaya near Huancayo. Harry
published a report on the survey (1947) which attracted much favorable atten-
tion; the field work had been done with great skill and a surprising amount of
valuable information collected. It was agreed by the three participants in the
Sicaya study that Muelle and Escobar should write the report on that com-
munity. Muelle and Escobar showed me their notes in Lima in the summer
of 1946 just after the close of the Sicaya work; both were full of enthusiasm
and had found the experience an emotional as well as an intellectual adventure.
Harry found field work exciting, and even to talk over field problems with
him was an inspiration.
During the work at Sicaya Harry was told about two caves nearby in
which stone implements had been found but no pottery. He made a small
excavation in these caves and published an article on them (1946) which is a
model of archeological reporting. These caves were the first preceramic sites
in Peru to be adequately reported.
When the Tschopiks returned to the United States in the summer of 1946
Kluckhohn was deep in culture and personality problems and wanted Harry
to get some background in this field. Then it was decided that Harry should
write his dissertation on Aymara"magic as revealing "the congruity between
personality and the culture pattern" (1951:147). The plan called for a tour de
force. The field work at Chucuito had not been done with problems of culture
and personality in mind,and Harry had to reinterpret his field notes without be-
ing able to go back and check questions with his informants. Few ethnologists
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Harry Tschopik, Jr.: 1915-1956 135
could have met such a formidable challenge, but Harry's field record included
so much detailed case material that he was able to write a very distinguished
monograph along the lines set. Its publication in 1951, the same year his
doctorate was awarded, prompted Kroeber to write a special letter of com-
mendation to the AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST (55:613). Nevertheless, Harry
was not happy with the culture and personality approach and never published
another paper which reflected it.
In March, 1947, Harry became Assistant Curator of Ethnology at the
American Museum of Natural History in New York, filling a vacancy left by
the retirement of Clark Wissler. It was an admirable appointment from every
point of view, and Harry wrote at the time that it was his number one job pref-
erence in the whole United States. His museum duties left him time to com-
plete his dissertation and stimulated him to do research in new fields. An in-
vitation to install an exhibit of North American Indian material at the Museo
Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica, in 1952 gave him an opportunity to make a
field survey of Costa Rican rural communities. Meanwhile, Harry had devel-
oped an interest in the Montafia tribes of eastern Peru through his research
for the great "Men of the Montafia" exhibit which the American Museum
installed in 1951. In 1953 he spent eight months exploring the Montafia area
and visited the Campa, Conibo, Shipibo, and Cocama. He brought back from
this trip 4,500 feet of color-sound film and 50 rolls of tape recordings in addition
to his own notes. In 1954 he published an album in the Ethnic Folkways Li-
brary containing selections of the music recorded on this trip, and the next
year he published two popular articles on his experiences. He was working on a
paper on Shipibo kinship at the time of his death.
As a result of the Montafia survey, Harry laid plans for a major research
program centering on the Ucayali tribes. It was to involve a combination of
archeological and ethnographic field work, with some background natural
science studies, and was to emphasize the history of the cultures in the area
and a relativistic approach to the cultural systems themselves. Harry wanted
to assume personal responsibility for making a thorough study of the culture
of the Conibo, a people whom he found particularly interesting and congenial,
and he hoped to persuade others to undertake other parts of the general pro-
gram. The first unit of his plan was carried out in 1956; in that year the
American Museum sponsored a season's archeological field work in the
Pucallpa area by Donald W. Lathrap of Harvard University. Lathrap followed
instructions and suggestions provided by Tschopik in this work and returned
home in time to make a personal report on his results shortly before Harry died.
In one of his last popular articles, Harry remarked, "An ethnologist by
profession, I am a photographer at heart" (Natural History, January, 1955, p.
12). This statement reflected the fact that Harry was fascinated by the possibil-
ities of using still photography and film to record ethnographic data in the
field both for research analysis and to make the cultures he studied intelligible
to a wider public. He was a superb photographer in both media. His death
interrupted the final editing of a color film based on his Montaia field work,
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136 American Anthropologist [60, 19581
but Harry had done enough so that the job could be finished by someone else.
Harry held an appointment as Lecturer as Columbia University from 1949
to 1951 but taught only for one year; he gave a course in 1949-50 on Andean
Indians. He was a good teacher and the students liked him, but he did not like
academic teaching--a reaction that he predicted long before he actually tried
it. The kind of teaching he liked was of an entirely different sort; he enjoyed
reaching a nonacademic public through popular lectures, nontechnical articles
and reviews, television, and strikingly original museum exhibits. He valued his
museum position so highly because he believed that the mission of anthropo-
logical museums is to take the study of man to a public which the universities
will never reach. In this difficult field Harry was one of the greatest teachers of
his generation. One cannot read his articles and reviews for Natural History
without being struck by the artistry with which he made accurate and sig-
nificant anthropological information intelligible and interesting to the general
reader. He brought the same skill to bear on television presentations in his
frequent appearances on the American Museum program Adventure; he in-
sisted on the highest scientific standards but maintained that the scripts did
not have to be dull just because they were accurate. He can ill be spared in a
field which anthropology cannot afford to neglect.
In museum exhibition, Harry's masterpiece was the "Men of the Montafia"
show for which he did the anthropological research (see The New Yorker,
December 8, 1951, pp. 33-34). With regard to this exhibit, Junius Bird writes:
"Since it was opened, I have talked with various Europeans on tour studying
museum exhibition techniques. All were emphatic in agreeing that this hall is
the greatest anthropological exhibit they had ever seen." In the manner of
Harry's popular articles, this exhibit is an emotional experience for the visitor
as well as a monument of scientific accuracy and clear presentation.
Harry was keenly interested in anthropological theory and enjoyed dis-
cussing it with his professional colleagues. In his writings, however, he liked to
make the theory, of which he was fully conscious, emerge from the selection,
arrangement, and interpretation of data. It is a highly sophisticated method of
scientific discourse which was not fashionable during Harry's lifetime-but
Harry made few concessions to academic fashion. He always appeared con-
cerned about other people's reactions, but in his own research his judgment
was independent, original, and sound.
Harry Tschopik died of heart failure in his sleep on November 12, 1956.
He is survived by his wife, a son Harry Tschopik III, and two daughters,
Carolyn and Hope.
JOHN HOWLAND ROWE
University of California, Berkeley
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