The Social anthropology of Latin America, essays in honor of Ralph Leon Beals. / Edited by Walter Goldschmidt & Harry Hoijer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon), 1901-1985.

Goldschmidt, Walter, 1913-2010, editor.

Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976, editor.

Series:

Latin American studies (University of California, Los Angeles. Latin American Center) ; v. 14.

Latin American studies, v. 14.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon), 1901-1985--Bibliography.

Beals, Ralph L.

Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon), 1901-1985.

Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs.

Indigenous peoples.

Indians--Social life and customs.

Latin America--Social conditions.

Latin America.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xi, 369 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Latin American Center, University of California, 1970.

Contents:

Tarascan folk religion, Christian or pagan? By P. Carrasco.

Indian acculturation in Nayarit: the Cora response to mestizoization, by T.B. Hinton.

Bonds of laughter among the Tarahumara Indians: a rethinking of joking relationship theory, by J.G. Kennedy.

A web of land: differential acculturation in southern Oaxaca, by B.N. Litzler.

Labor migration and family structure in the Tlaxcala-Pueblan area, Mexico, by H.A. Nutini and T.D. Murphy.

Contrasting forms of nativism among the Mayos and Yaquis of Sonora, Mexico, by E.H. Spicer.

Urbanization and a traditional market system, by R. Waterbury.

A survey of provincial power structure in Guatemala, by R.N. Adams.

Panajachel a generation later, by S. Tax and R. Hinshaw.

Cultural evolution in South America, by J.H. Steward.

Ethnicity and social mobility in Chancay Valley, Peru, by L.C. Faron.

Stratification and pluralism in the Bolivian Yungas, by M.B. Léons.

The mechanisms of culture change, by K.H. Schwerin.

Goajiro kinship and the eiruku cycle, by J. Wilbert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

OCLC:

143867