Guajiro social structure
article 1967 • Watson, Lawrence Craig

Goajiro • South America > Northwestern South America
In this paper the author has attempted to show that Guajiro society, rather than being the relatively undifferentiated and uncomplicated entity suggested in the literature, is in reality articulated by a complex hierarchy of social groups encompassin...

Marriage and sexual adjustment in Guajiro society
article 1973 • Watson, Lawrence Craig

Goajiro • South America > Northwestern South America
On the basis of a previous study dealing with Guajiro sexual socialization (Watson 1972), one would be led to predict that the harsh effects of severe training in this system, by creating 'negative sexual fixation,' would lay the basis for subsequent...

Guajiro personality and urbanization
Book 1968 • Watson, Lawrence Craig

Goajiro • South America > Northwestern South America
This monograph is a study in the field of culture and personality dealing with urbanization and its effect on socialization and personality between rural (i.e. tribal) and urban Goajiro living in the settlement of Barrio Ziruma. Much of the data cont...

Dreaming as world view and action in Guajiro culture
article 1981 • Watson, Lawrence Craig

Goajiro • South America > Northwestern South America
This essay shows specifically how the Guajiro have conceptualized dreams into a coherent cognitive model which defines the nature of Guajiro reality. As a statement of seemingly mysterious, yet orderly processes that underlie experience, dreaming in ...

Conflicting images of women and female enculturation among Urban Guajiro
article 1986 • Watson-Franke, Maria-Barbara & Watson, Lawrence Craig

Goajiro • South America > Northwestern South America
This paper focuses on what the author believes is an acute example of 'image confrontation' in the urban setting involving Guajiro mothers and their daughters. This occurs as tribal-born mothers who hold to tribal images of womanhood, attempt to incu...