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Women and property in Guajiro society
Ethnos • 52 (1-2) • Published In 1987 • Pages: 229-245
By: Watson-Franke, Maria-Barbara.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper discusses property-related issues and concepts among the Guajiro ...from a women-oriented perspective, focusing on types of acquisition and management of property as well as death and compensation-linked property transactions. Also considered are questions pertaining to female productivity in pastoral societies and women's significance as resources and potential property (p. 229).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Property system
- Property in movables
- Accumulation of wealth
- Sacred objects and places
- Magic
- Lineages
- Informal in-group justice
- 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
- article
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Venezuela, South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-245)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 45053696
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Goajiro Indians