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Economics of a Guatemalan villageBook 1941 • Wagley, Charles
Mam Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This monograph, based on field and archival research, provides a good description of the economic life of the Mam of Santiago Chimaltenango in 1937. Since agriculture is the basis of the Chimalteco economy, Wagley discusses agricultural practices and...The social and religious life of a Guatemalan villageBook 1949 • Wagley, Charles
Mam Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This monograph, a companion volume to 1: Wagley, is concerned with a description of the social and religious life of the Mam in Santiago Chimaltenango. The first two chapters stress the social life and include discussions of kinship and the life cycl...Tapirapé social and culture change, 1940-1953essay 1955 • Wagley, Charles
Tapirapé • South America > Eastern South America
Wagley first studied this group during 1939-1940 and he revisited them for a short time in 1953. He found that the depopulation of the tribe had continued and that in 1953 there were only 51 individuals left - the rest having died or moved far away. ...Tapirapé shamanismarticle 9430 • Wagley, Charles
Tapirapé • South America > Eastern South America
This study is based on fieldwork done in a Tapirapé village during 1939-1940. It includes a brief description of Tapirapé culture, as well as selections on the source of shamanistic power, sorcery, duties of the shaman, social position of the shaman,...World view of the Tapirapé Indiansarticle 1940 • Wagley, Charles
Tapirapé • South America > Eastern South America
This article describes some of the religious and cosmological beliefs of the Tapirapé. Mythology, beliefs about meteorological phenomena and heavenly bodies, spirits, gods and souls, and beliefs about animals and various aspects of nature are describ...Welcome of tearsBook 1977 • Wagley, Charles
Tapirapé • South America > Eastern South America
This document integrates Wagley's earlier studies on Tapirapé ethnography made in 1939-1940, with updated information obtained from brief visits to these people in 1953, 1957, and 1965. The author discusses early contacts of the Tapirapé with Europea...A Tapirapé comes of agearticle 1945 • Wagley, Charles & Brunel, Ariane
Tapirapé • South America > Eastern South America
This article offers a brief description of puberty rites among the Tapirapé. Although the details of the ceremony itself are not discussed, considerable information is given on the costumes worn by the youths, the preparation for the ceremony, and th...