Book
The social and religious life of a Guatemalan village
American Anthropological Association • Menasha, Wisconsin • Published In 1949 • Pages: 150 , 6 photos on 3 end plates
By: Wagley, Charles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph, a companion volume to 1: Wagley, is concerned with a description of the social and religious life of the Mam in Santiago Chimaltenango. The first two chapters stress the social life and include discussions of kinship and the life cycle. The local civil-religious hierarchy is fully dicussed and there is some information on how the local officials fit into the governmental organization of Guatemala (here the reader should beware of Wagley's application of the term mnicipio to Chimaltenango since the town had lost that status in 1935). Major chapters are also devoted to the religious belief system and to a description of the annual ceremonial cycle. The monograph pertains to 1937 when Wagley did his fieldwork. There are a few hints of possible changes in Chimaltenango between the date of field work and date of publication, but these are not dealt with in any systematic way. An appendix of field notes written in 1944 by Juan de Dios Rosales, a researcher with the Carnegie Institution, is included and gives glimpses of daily life as well as what it is like to do field work in this village. Finally, there is an extensive index that is keyed to materials in 1: Wagley in addition to this volume.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Settlement patterns
- Towns
- Cultural identity and pride
- Real property
- Local officials
- Inter-community relations
- Lineages
- Ethnosociology
- Ethnic stratification
- Household
- Artificial kin relationships
- Friendships
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- Status, role, and prestige
- Age stratification
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Revelation and divination
- Elections
- Prayers and sacrifices
- 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
- 1900-1944
- 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. 138)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 50003246
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mam Indians/Indians of Central America--Guatemala/Indians of Central America--Social life and customs/Indians of Central America--Religion/Santiago Chimaltenango (Guatemala)