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The Maya of east central Quintana Roo
Carnegie Institution of Washington • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1945 • Pages: xii, 182 , plates
By: Villa Rojas, Alfonso.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The subtribe of X-Cacal in Quintana Roo was selected for study as an illustration of one end of the folk-urban continuum in Yucatan. Since the group was isolated, the Villa Rojas supposed their culture might be more stable and unmodified. However, he does point out later in the text that a 'new and distinctive culture' was produced in the nineteenth century as a result of isolation following the War of the Castes (1847-1853). Some unique features were the politico-religious system of social control centering around the Cult of the Cross, and the division into military companies. After a preliminary reconnaissance in 1932, Villa Rojas returned the following year as a traveling merchant in order to establish rapport with the group. The major part of the investigation (1935-1936) was carried out employing more usual ethnographic methods. The sum total of time in the field was one year. Part I of the source is a history of Quintana Roo providing a background to Part II, which is a comprehensive ethnographic account of the culture of the subtribe. Although there are nine communities, most of the data were gathered in X-Cacal and Tusik villages. An annotated bibliography of the Caste War and Allied Topics, by Howard F. Cline appears as Appendix C.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Prehistory
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cereal agriculture
- Division of labor by gender
- Arranging a marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- External relations
- Revolution
- Spirits and gods
- Organized ceremonial
- 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
- Joan Steffens ; 1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1932-1936
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- prehistory - ca. 1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- X-Cacal subtribe, Quintana Roo, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alfonso Villa R.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-182)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 45007325
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas