Book
The folk culture of Yucatan
The University of Chicago Press • Chicago, Ill. • Published In 1959 • Pages: xxiii, 416 , plates
By: Redfield, Robert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an excellent comparative study of four Mayan communities:Yucatan's largest city and port, Merida, the market town of Dzitas, the village of Chan Kom, and the isolated village of Tusik in the state of Quintana Roo. Redfield insightfully examines the class and ethnic structure, economy, family organization, religion, and medical practices of each community, paying attention to the degree of cultural cohesiveness. He fits these different communities into a folk-urban continuum and demonstrates how they express an increase in secularization, individualization, and disorganization of Yucatan culture as one moves from the homogeneous, agricultural village to the heterogenous, multi-occupational city. In using a synchronic study to suppport a diachronic theory, Redfield does not give sufficient due to local histories and the structures of the regional and global economies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cultural participation
- Mutual aid
- Status, role, and prestige
- Religious beliefs
- 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.
- Sociologist
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1927-1936
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1847-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yucatán and Quintana Roo, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Robert Redfield
- 'Results of research carried on under the auspices and at the expense of Carnegie Institution of Washington.'--p. [vi]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-400)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 41015380
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas