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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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cereal agriculture
- Status, role, and prestige
- Classes
- Social relationships and groups
- Community structure
- Territorial hierarchy
- Form and rules of government
- 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
- article
- 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
- Joan Steffens ; 1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1930s - 1950s
- 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
- Victor Goldkind
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas