Book
Clans and kinship system of Cancuc (Mexico)
Acta Americana • 5 • Published In 1947 • Pages: 1-17 [HRAF ms.: p 1-19]
By: Guiteras Holmes, Calixta, Bravo, Mary Louise.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of the kin groups (clan) and the kinship terminology of the Tzeltal in the town of Cancuc, Chiapas, Mexico, is based on the author's two season's fieldwork during May-June in 1945 and June 1946. In this short article information concerning the structure of the unilinear kin groups, the relationships of these groups with the community structure, the characteristics of these groups such as names, and the kin terms are clearly presented.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kinship
- Clans
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tzeltal
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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
- Maya Area
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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
- Cheng-ruey Ma
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1945-1946
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1945-46
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cancuc village, Chiapas, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Calixta Guiteras Holmes
- Translation of: Clanes y sistema de parentesco de Cancuc (México). The original Spanish text is not included
- Translated from the Spanish for the Human Relations Area Files by Mary Louise Bravo
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tzeltal Indians