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Social stratification in the peasant community: Redfield's Chan Kom reinterpreted

American anthropologist67 • Published In 1965 • Pages: 863-884

By: Goldkind, Victor.

Abstract
Goldkind is concerned here with the classless homogeneity consistently emphasized in all Redfield's interpretations of the village community. This paper is a re-examination of the economic, social and political aspects of life in Chan Kom (based primarily on the data presented in sources 2:Redfield and Villa Rojas and 3:Redfield of this file, plus one summer field work after the paper was written). Goldkind suggests a basic reinterpretation of the social life of that community. He finds 'a heterogeneity significant for the lives of the people of the community and associated with the type of economic, status, and political stratification conceptualized by Weber.'
Subjects
Cereal agriculture
Status, role, and prestige
Classes
Social relationships and groups
Community structure
Territorial hierarchy
Form and rules of government
culture
Maya (Yucatán Peninsula)
HRAF PubDate
2000
Region
Middle America and the Caribbean
Sub Region
Maya Area
Document Type
article
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
4: Excellent Secondary Data
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Joan Steffens ; 1965
Field Date
1964
Coverage Date
ca. 1930s - 1950s
Coverage Place
village of Chan Kom, Yucatan, Mexico
Notes
Victor Goldkind
Includes bibliographical references
LCCN
17015424
LCSH
Mayas