Book
The road from el Palmar: change, continuity, and conservatism in a Quiché community
ProQuest • • Published In 2018 • Pages:
By: Saler, Benson.
Abstract
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.
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Maya Area
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1958-1959
- Coverage Date
- 1910-1959
- Coverage Place
- El Palmar, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
- Notes
- by Benson Saler
- Mic 60-3688
- Includes bibliographical references (p. vii-xiv)
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Pennsylvania, 1960
- LCSH
- Quiché Indians