Book
The Cayapa: a study in legal behavior
University Microfilms, Inc. • Ann Arbor • Published In 1965 • Pages:
By: Altschuler, Milton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The field work for this study was carried out among the Cayapa Indians of Esmeraldas Province in northwestern Ecuador, particularly those of the Punta Venado tribal group in the Río Camerones region. The author's main focus is on the area of Cayapa social control through law and government. This approach to the analysis of the data was based on the functional-realist approach to law propounded by E. Adamson Hoebel. In setting the stage for the functional interpretations, the author provides a very good summary of Cayapa culture and ecology. Five other chapters are devoted to discussions of social organization, courtship and marriage, deviancy and law in the area of sex relations (i.e., in regard to incest, adultery and polygyny), land, property and inheritance, and the Cayapa psychological dimension. A final chapter presents his conclusions on the interpretation of his data, generally in terms of the adaptation of Cayapa legal norms to changing patterns of social customs and behavior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Recreation
- Marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Artificial kin relationships
- Community structure
- Sex and marital offenses
- Burial practices and funerals
- Ecclesiastical organization
- Reproduction
- Infancy and childhood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chachi
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1966 ; Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1908-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cayapas Basin, Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador
- NotesAdditional notes
- Milton Altschuler
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1964
- UM 65-995
- Information on the Afro-Ecuadorians of Esmeraldas Province has been marked for categories 171, 177 or 186 as appropriate.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-250)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cayapa Indians