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The place of kinship in Tarahumara social organizationarticle 1943 • Passin, Herbert
Tarahumara • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
This is a detailed discussion of Tarahumara kinship terminology, relationships, and integration within the community and tribe. The two sections of the article deal with the formal system and its application in daily experience. Passin presents a tho...Sorcery as a phase of Tarahumara economic relationsarticle 1942 • Passin, Herbert
Tarahumara • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
This brief article discusses the practice of sorcery as an expression of hostility resulting from the evasion by individual Tarahumaras of traditional cultural obligations. Passin presents the theoretical view of sorcery as an expression of aggressio...Tarahumara prevaricationarticle 1942 • Passin, Herbert
Tarahumara • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
This is a discussion of the occurrence, classification, cases and apparent causes of lying on the part of informants as encountered by Passin during field work among the Tarahumara. The author treats the role of the observer in determining incidents ...