โ Scribed by Melvin Marvin Tumin
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An important contribution to our cumulative knowledge of castes, based on a case study of the pueblo of San Luis Jilotepeque, about ninety miles from Guatemala City in Central America. "Much of the fascination of the book derives from the intrinsic interest of the material itself its exotic locale, and its broader significance for other parts of Latin America."โThe Annals.
Originally published in 1952.
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I. THE SETTING
CHAPTER 1. ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORK
CHAPTER 2. SOCIALIZATION, EDUCATION, AND RECREATION
CHAPTER 3. RELIGION, MEDICINE, AND MAGIC
CHAPTER 4. THE PUEBLO: ITS RELATIONS AND REPUTATION
PART II. LADINO-INDIAN SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
CHAPTER 5. PHYSICAL FACTORS AND THEIR SOCIAL DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE, LITERACY, AND EDUCATION
CHAPTER 7. CLOTHING
CHAPTER 8. HOUSING: QUALITY, STYLE, AND LOCATION
CHAPTER 9. ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND ATTITUDES
PART III. TENSIONS AND EQUILIBRIA
CHAPTER 10. THE GODPARENT COMPLEX
CHAPTER 11. THE DIFFERENTIAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION
CHAPTER 12. THE DIFFERENTIAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF KINSHIP
CHAPTER 13. WHERE THE PEOPLE MEET
CHAPTER 14. WHERE THE PEOPLE STAY APART
CHAPTER 15. INTRA-GROUP STRATIFICATION
CHAPTER l 6 . GROUP IMAGES
CHAPTER 17. LEVELS OF ASPIRATION AND ASSIMILATION
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
APPENDIX
I. METHODOLOGY
II. THE SCHEDULE
III. LADINO OPINIONS ABOUT INTERMARRIAGE
INDEX
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