Book
The road from el Palmar: change, continuity, and conservatism in a Quiché community
ProQuest • • Published In 2018 • Pages:
By: Saler, Benson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This doctoral dissertation focused on a Quiché community originally from the highland town of Momostenango that resettled in the Pacific lowland town of El Palmar argues that it exhibits aspects of both theoretical types of peasant community: the closed corporate peasant community and the open peasant community. Relatively corporate practices center on life cycle events, marriage, inheritance, and shamanism.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Agriculture
- Status, role, and prestige
- Arranging a marriage
- Community structure
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Towns
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Revelation and divination
- Ecclesiastical organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Quiché Maya
- 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; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1910-1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- El Palmar, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Benson Saler
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Pennsylvania, 1960
- Mic 60-3688
- Includes bibliographical references (p. vii-xiv)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Quiché Indians