Book
Tradition and adaptation: life in a modern Yucatan Maya village
Greenwood Press • Westport, Conn. • Published In 1975 • Pages:
By: Press, Irwin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
According to the author, Irwin Press, change has been a feature of peasant life for hundreds of years. Villagers have been able to accommodate change because theirs is a 'society of parts' and not a fragile, tightly knit integrated whole. Differences in gender, religion, ethnicity, and education are cleavages along which the forces of change can move without necessarily disrupting village life. Press shows how change is negotiated in terms of Ladino and Mestizo identities. He also discusses how the prestige and leadership of two professional teachers, who were born in the community, facilitated change.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Public utilities
- Status, role, and prestige
- Ethnic stratification
- Family
- Community structure
- Religious denominations
- 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.
- 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
- 1963-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1963-1968
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pustunich, Yucatan, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Irwin Press
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75000071
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas