Book
Interpretations of drinking performances in Aguacatenango
University of Chicago Library • Chicago, Ill. • Published In 1964 • Pages: 4, 187 leaves
By: Metzger, Duane.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Metzger distinguishes between ceremonial and individual drinking among the Indians of Aguacatenango. The former occurs at every public and household ceremonial. During ceremonial drinking, at which only adult males participate, the status of each individual is given consideration. Though every adult male of the community is supposed to participate at ceremonial drinking parties, successful attempts to gain acceptable dispensation from drinking are not infrequent. Aggressive behavior of drunken persons is not condemned. Metzger presents numerous native verbal texts for the interpretation of drinking behavior. The study also discusses kin terminology in detail.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Alcoholic beverages
- 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
- Sigrid Khera ; John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1956-1960
- 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)
- village of Aguacatenango (southern Tzeltal area), Chiapas, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Duane Metzger
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Chicago, 1964
- Bibliography: p. 185-187
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tzeltal Indians