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Household organization and budget structures in a Purepecha pueblo
American ethnologist • 23 (2) • Published In 1996 • Pages: 331-351
By: Acheson, James M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of household accounting and management examines how families save money, allocate resources and labor, and earn income, such as by running small-scale enterprises. The more successful households are those that separate funds intended for various uses and objectives.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Accounting
- Saving and investment
- Individual enterprise
- Standard of living
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tarascans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2024
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2023
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1991
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cuanajo, Pátzcuaro Municipality, Michoacán, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- James M. Acheson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-351)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74644326
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tarasco Indians