Book
Cayuá culture change: a study in acculturation and methodology
American Anthropological Association • (73) • Published In 1952 • Pages: 144
By: Watson, James B. (James Bennett).
Abstract
After a discussion of the part of Guarani history for which written sources exist, Watson discusses in detail the acculturative changes in Cayuá culture. He traces the causal interrelationships of these changes, and reaches the final conclusion that during the whole period of acculturation Cayuá culture manifested a relatively high degree of organization. Sharp conflicts or periods of stress apparently did not occur. Strong acculturative influences took place during the period of missionization by the Jesuits from 1610 to 1768, and since the beginning of the 20th century when the expansion of the White Brazilian population deprived the Indians of the larger part of their territory. Today the Cayuá Indians live primarily on agriculture, instead of the hunting and fishing subsistence base of earlier times. The trade of some agricultural goods, strainers, and hammocks to Whites, as well as wage labor for White agriculturalists have brought a certain amount of goods from Neo-Brazilian civilazation to the Cayuá. The original extended family, that resided in one large building, has been replaced by the nuclear family that occupies a small dwelling alone.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1998
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Eastern South America
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Sigrid Khera ; Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; 1971-1972
- Field Date
- June-Dec. 1943
- Coverage Date
- Sixteenth century -1943
- Coverage Place
- Cayuá Indians, village of Taquapirí, Brazil
- Notes
- James B. Watson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-137) and index
- LCCN
- 52010028
- LCSH
- Guarani Indians