Book
Chan Kom: a Maya village
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 1962 • Pages:
By: Redfield, Robert, Villa Rojas, Alfonso.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an intensive study of the folk culture of the village of Chan Kom, located in the north central part of the Yucatan peninsula. The basic presentation is in twelve chapters concentrating successively on the village and its setting; history; tools and techniques; economics; the division of labor; family, village and state; the invisible world; ceremonies of field and hive; the novena and the village fiesta; sickness and its cure; the life cycle; and the meaning of nature. The autobiography of a native community leader is presented as a separate chapter. The six appendices include a diary of his life in Chan Kom by Villa Rojas; some myths, legends, and tales; texts of Maya prayers; notes on midwifery by Katherine MacKay; an analysis of Indian and Spanish elements in the culture; and a glossary of Maya and Spanish animal and plant names mentioned in the text. The original draft of this source was prepared by Redfield and was submitted to Villa Rojas for additions and changes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Cereal agriculture
- Dwellings
- Division of labor by gender
- Extended families
- Artificial kin relationships
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Inter-community relations
- Revolution
- Theory of disease
- Magical and mental therapy
- Ecclesiastical organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Maya (Yucatán Peninsula)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1927-1933
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- prehistory-1933
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Chan Kom, Yucatan, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Robert Redfield…and Alfonso Villa R.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 375 and 380) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas