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Migration Into San Juan Indian Pueblo, 1726-1968, Shirley Hill Witt
Migration Into San Juan Indian Pueblo, 1726-1968, Shirley Hill Witt
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Ethnographic literature and popular opinion conjoin in the belief that American Pueblo Indians reside in endogamous communities. Since one pueblo community is part of our population under study, it behooves us to assess its genic relation to the wider population of the Chama Valley-San Juan Jurisdiction area. If it is endogamous, then, of course, it is a genetic isolate and, as such, contributes nothing on the biological level to the outside population. If, on the other hand, the pueblo is exogamous, we need to know how and what is transferred both to the outside population and from the outside population …
Hierarchy And Equality In Three Latin American Peasant Communities., Luis Fernando Cruz-Sandoval
Hierarchy And Equality In Three Latin American Peasant Communities., Luis Fernando Cruz-Sandoval
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This paper deals with three peasant communities; the Tzotzil Indians of Zinacantan, in Chiapas, Mexico; the Quechua Indians of Hualcan, in Ancash, Peru; and the Mixtec Indians of Santo Domingo barrio, in Oaxaca, Mexico. The problem investigated is the relationship of hierarchical or egalitarian structures in religion to the familial, economic, and political organizations in all three communities. In Zinacantan and Hualcan, it was found, the type of religious organization and family relationships corresponded to each other in their hierarchical character: (1) full participation in the religious hierarchy open only to men, who are ranked by status, accords with (2) …
Chippewa Townsmen: A Study In Small-Scale Urban Adaptation., J. Anthony Paredes
Chippewa Townsmen: A Study In Small-Scale Urban Adaptation., J. Anthony Paredes
Anthropology ETDs
This is a study of Chippewa Indians living in a small northern Minnesota city which is in close proximity to the reservations from which the majority of the adult Indians have originated. The research deals with two relate problems; (1) Identification of determinants for Chippewa relocation to this community; and (2) Specification of the dimensions of adaptation and their inter-relationships in the urban population studied. The total socio-cultural environmental is analytically conceived as consisting of four major elements: the American economic system, American mass culture and society, the city, and “Indian culture,” which is further subdivided into traditional culture, reservation …
Sandia Pueblo: Persistence And Change In A New Mexican Indian Community, Suzanne Lee Simons
Sandia Pueblo: Persistence And Change In A New Mexican Indian Community, Suzanne Lee Simons
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The dissertation has a twofold purpose: to redress the lacuna in the social anthropological literature with respect to the Tiwa-speaking pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico, and to account for the persistence of this traditionally oriented community despite dependence upon a complex industrial society which is potentially conducive to sociocultural disorganization. To accomplish this dual aim, field work was conducted at Sandia for two and one-half years, during which observations were made of contemporary pueblo social relations and lengthy interviews were conducted with selected residents.