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Conflicting images of women and female enculturation among Urban Guajiro
Journal of Latin American Lore • 12 (2) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 141-159
By: Watson-Franke, Maria-Barbara, Watson, Lawrence Craig.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper focuses on what the author believes is an acute example of 'image confrontation' in the urban setting involving Guajiro mothers and their daughters. This occurs as tribal-born mothers who hold to tribal images of womanhood, attempt to inculcate these images in their daughters in the face of competing and conflicting images of women held by the national culture [Venezuela] to which they are exposed, and the enculturative conflicts and problems this poses. Thus, the urban-born daughter must face women-oriented tribal images of women at home and men-oriented national images in the outside world and hope to fashion out of this some viable self-identity as a woman and as a person (p. 143).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Personality development
- Puberty and initiation
- Urban and rural life
- Ethnosociology
- Family relationships
- Cultural identity and pride
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- no date
- 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 and Lawrence C. Watson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-159)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75648807
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Goajiro Indians