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Social stratification in the peasant community: Redfield's Chan Kom reinterpreted
American anthropologist • 67 • Published In 1965 • Pages: 863-884
By: Goldkind, Victor.
Abstract
Goldkind is concerned here with the classless homogeneity consistently emphasized in all Redfield's interpretations of the village community. This paper is a re-examination of the economic, social and political aspects of life in Chan Kom (based primarily on the data presented in sources 2:Redfield and Villa Rojas and 3:Redfield of this file, plus one summer field work after the paper was written). Goldkind suggests a basic reinterpretation of the social life of that community. He finds 'a heterogeneity significant for the lives of the people of the community and associated with the type of economic, status, and political stratification conceptualized by Weber.'
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Maya Area
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Joan Steffens ; 1965
- Field Date
- 1964
- Coverage Date
- ca. 1930s - 1950s
- Coverage Place
- village of Chan Kom, Yucatan, Mexico
- Notes
- Victor Goldkind
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 17015424
- LCSH
- Mayas