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CheránBook 1946 • Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon)
Tarascans • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This general ethnographic study of the Tarascan community of Cherán provides detailed information on material culture, economy, community organization, religion, the fiesta system, and the life cycle of individuals. Two appendices offer comparative m...Community in transitionBook 1966 • Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon)
Quito Quichua • South America > Central Andes
This monograph, based on a field study made in Nayón, a Quichua-speaking Ecuadorian village located in Quito municipio, Pichincha province, is basically an ethnographic community study, with emphasis on the indigenous economy in terms of its relation...Acculturation, economics, and social change in an Ecuadorean villageessay 1952 • Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon)
Quito Quichua • South America > Central Andes
This study is a "limited and partial" examination of some facets of the changes in economic and social structure affecting the parroqíía of Nayón, a small settlement near Quito in the province of Pichincha. The author finds urbanization to be a more ...A Lacustrine economy in Californiaessay 1958 • Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon) & Hester, Joseph A.
Yokuts • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This is a study in the ecology of the Tachi Yokuts north and west of Tulare Lake, whose culture was significantly influenced by the immediate lake and desert environment. The authors give a brief but adequate description of this environment, indicate...Houses and house use of the Sierra TarascansBook 1944 • Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon) et al.
Tarascans • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
With the objective of suggesting solutions to inadequacies in Tarascan housing, this study undertakes to survey uses of various building materials, types of domestic structures, modes of construction, furniture, utensils, interior decoration, materia...Games of the Mountain Tarascansarticle 1944 • Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon) & Carrasco Pizana, Pedro
Tarascans • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This article describes in detail the equipment and rules for a number of athletic and board games considered to be at least partially of indigenous origin....The diet of a Tarascan villagearticle 1943 • Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon) & Hatcher, Evelyn Payne
Tarascans • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This article presents the results of a study of diet in a mountain village. The authors had the cooperation of several families of varying economic status in recording what they consumed over a fifteen day period....