Book
Social organization in La Guajira
[s.n.] • 3 (2) • Published In 1950 • Pages: HRAF ms: i-ix, 1-304 [Original: xvi, 255 ]
By: Gutiérrez de Pineda, Virginia, Muirden, Sydney.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, written by a professional ethnologist, is the basic work on the Goajiro. The source deals with the various aspects of the life cycle: birth, child-raising, childhood, marriage, and death. Discussed in great detail are the relations between the members of the family and clan. Also treated in considerable detail are clan structure and the resolution of conflicts between clans, the various categories of crimes and the sanctions for each, and the various aspects of the property system. The author carefully points out which features are more representative of the traditional culture, and which have come about as a result of acculturation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mode of marriage
- Residence
- Extramarital sex relations
- Childbirth
- Community heads
- Slavery
- Serfdom and peonage
- Offenses against the person
- Sex and marital offenses
- Inter-community relations
- Status, role, and prestige
- Clans
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Goajiro
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwestern South America
- 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
- James R. Leary ; 1961: John Beierle, 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1947
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Colombia, South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- Virginia Gutierrez de Pineda
- Translation of: [Organizacion Social en la Guajira]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Sydney Muirden
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Goajiro Indians