Book
Economics of a Guatemalan village
American Anthropological Association • Menasha, Wisconsin • Published In 1941 • Pages: 85
By: Wagley, Charles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph, based on field and archival research, provides a good description of the economic life of the Mam of Santiago Chimaltenango in 1937. Since agriculture is the basis of the Chimalteco economy, Wagley discusses agricultural practices and the land tenure system, including its historical development, in depth. Trade, occupational specialization, wage labor, levels of consumption, and economic stratification are other major topics. Since the monograph is topically focused, other aspects of Mam culture are treated only briefly in the introductory chapter or in more elaborated form where they are important to the discussion of economic life. An index including page references to this document is in the microfiche 2: Wagley, pages 139-150.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Life history materials
- Tillage
- Real property
- Cereal agriculture
- Inheritance
- Occupational specialization
- Accumulation of wealth
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mam Maya
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor Swanson ; Martin Malone ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- April-October, 1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1941
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Santiago Chimaltenango; Cuchumatanes Highlands; Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles W. Wagley
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-85)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 41004894
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mam Indians/Indians of Central America--Guatemala/Santiago Chimaltenango, Guatemala/Guatemala--Economic conditions--1918-1945