Book
Village and plantation life in northeastern Brazil
University of Washington Press • Seattle • Published In 1957 • Pages:
By: Hutchinson, Harry William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a socio-cultural analysis of the community of Vila Recôncavo in the sugar-producing region of the state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil, presented in the perspective of the long historical tradition of sugar-cane growing in the region. The author indicates how the abolition of slavery, the socio-political changes in colonial government in the 19th century and the eventual introduction of steam power enabling the development of large, centralized sugar mills, all led to important changes in the pattern of life in the area which had been previously based on sugar monoculture. These emergent socio-cultural patterns are the basic theme of this source and are discussed in terms of such current trends as the increased importance of the corporate owned sugar-processing factory (the USINA), the dissemination of national patterns, the beginning of the petroleum industry and the competition of sugar-cane growing with cacao planting. Town and plantation life are analyzed separately but the interrelationships between the two are also discussed in the chapters on class and race, the family and religion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Special crops
- Labor
- Occupational specialization
- Labor relations
- Classes
- Ethnic stratification
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bahia Brazilians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- EvaluationIn this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on. The second part is 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.
- Ethnologist-4, 5
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1969-1970
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1957
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vila Recôncavo, State of Bahia, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harry William Hutchinson
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57008753
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bahia (Brazil : State)