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The Tzeltal
Handbook of Middle American Indians • 7 • Published In 1969 • Pages: 195-225
By: Villa Rojas, Alfonso.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article, written by a professional anthropologist with fieldwork experience among the Tzeltal, is concerned with the people, their culture and society. Data pertain to environment, culture history, technology, food, social structure, political organization, life cycle, religion, etc. Villa Rojas also mentions the socio-cultural changes in Tzeltal society and regional differences between Tzeltal communities. Although this account is based primarily on the author's field work, it is further supplemented by additional library research.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- 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
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- 1938-1944
- 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)
- central Chiapas, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Alfonso Villa Rojas
- Includes bibliography
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64010316
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tzeltal Indians