Book
Nine Mayan women: a village faces change
Schenkman Pub. Co. • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1976 • Pages:
By: Elmendorf, Mary L. (Mary Lindsay).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a very personal study of Chan Kom in the early seventies prior to the building of the road which connected the village to the city of Merida. It focusses on the lives of nine women, all related to the village's patriarch. In the first part, Elmendorf provides an intimate portrait of each woman based on loosely structured interviews. She was interested in quality of life issues and how satisfied the women were with their lives. She relates their daily activities, life histories, courtship, family relationships and attitudes toward change. In the following section she analyzes the material. She discovers that the women are indeed happy and content with their lot. They value work and share a mutual respect with their husbands. Although the author is apprehensive about the coming of the road, the women look forward to it. However, after the road is built, the author returns to discover that only two of twenty unmarried women remain in the village, the others have left to work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cereal agriculture
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Clothing manufacture
- Gender status
- Marriage
- Family
- Conception
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Maya (Yucatán Peninsula)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- Maya Area
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1971-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chan Kom, Yucatán, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mary Elmendorf
- A revision of the author's thesis, Union Graduate School,1972, published under title: The Mayan woman and change
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-159)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74012464
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas