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The social consequences of Zapotec inheritance
Social, political, and economic life in contemporary Oaxaca • Nashville, Tenn. • Published In 1979 • Pages: 161-179
By: Downing, Theodore E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This report is a study of the effects of inheritance patterns on social solidarity. Downing's investigations among the Zapotec Indians seem to indicate '...that inheritance is an important element in an elaborate sequence of social exchanges. These exchanges structure alliances between households' (p. 162). In overall perspective, such alliances tend to contribute to the continuity and solidarity of the Zapotec's maximal societal group, the village, by means of a process of structuring the interactions of their minimal societal groups, the households.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Inheritance
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zapotec
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- essay
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1980: John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Diaz Ordaz and San Miguel del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Theodore Edmond Dowing
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-179)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80108823
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zapotec Indians