Book
The folk culture of Yucatan
The University of Chicago Press • Chicago, Ill. • Published In 1959 • Pages: xxiii, 416 , plates
By: Redfield, Robert.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Maya Area
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Sociologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field Date
- 1927-1936
- Coverage Date
- 1847-1936
- Coverage Place
- Yucatán and Quintana Roo, Mexico
- 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)
- LCCN
- 41015380
- LCSH
- Mayas