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Age as a source of differentiation within a Garifuna village in southern Belize
America Indígena • 47 • Published In 1987 • Pages: 97-118
By: Palacio, Joseph O..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the acculturative effects of outside contacts on the social organization of a village community in southern Belize, called Lisurnia (a pseudonym). As the basis of his study Palacio divides the population of this village into specific age groups and discusses in detail the various social interactions between them. The author notes that the '...salience of age as a group marker arises from the fact that persons enter the village to stay and leave at specific periods within their life cycle' (p. 98). This tendency of the Garifuna to live in a village for part of their life and away for another part indicates to the author the almost completely open orientation of the villagers to the outside world.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Age stratification
- Community structure
- Child care
- Adolescent activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Garifuna
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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
- Central America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- John Beierle; 1989-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- 'Lisurnia'[pseudonym], Belize
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Joseph O. Palacio
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-118)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 44038531
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garifuna (Caribbean people)