Contemporary cultures and societies of Latin America; a reader in the social anthropology of Middle and South America and the Caribbean.

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Contemporary cultures and societies of Latin America; a reader in the social anthropology of Middle and South America and the Caribbean. Edited, with introductions and notes, by Dwight B. Heath and Richard N. Adams.

Heath, Dwight B., (ed.). Adams, Richard Newbold, 1924- (joint ed.).

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Physical Description: xi, 586 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York, Random House [1965]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographies.
Formatted Contents Note:: The delineation of cultural entities in Latin America. Introduction / Richard N. Adams -- Culture changes in Yucatan / Robert Redfield -- Analysis of complex contemporary societies : culture patterns of Puerto Rico / Julian Steward -- A typology of Latin American subcultures / Charles Wagley and Marvin Harris -- General remarks on rural Paraguay / Elman R. and Helen S. Service -- Aspects of group relations in a complex society : Mexico / Eric R. Wolf -- Aspects of Andean native life / Oscar Núñez Del Prado -- Regionalism and cultural unity in Brazil / Charles Wagley -- Land, agriculture, and economics. Introduction / Dwight B. Heath -- Indigenous economy in Latin America / Sanford A. Mosk -- The occurrence and disappearance of reciprocal farm labor in Latin America / Charles J. Erasmus -- Land tenure and transmission in rural Barbados / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Patterns of land tenancy and their social repercussions / George W. Hill, José A. Silva M., and Ruth Oliver de Hill -- The Jamaican internal marketing pattern : some notes and hypotheses / Sidney W. Mintz -- Mechanization in Paracho : a craft community / Bernice A. Kaplan --

Social organization. Introduction / Richard N. Adams -- Family, marriage, and divorce in Brazil / Thales de Azevedo -- The role of regional associations in the adaptation of rural migrants to cities in Peru / William P. Mangin -- Class and kinship in Argentina / Arnold Strickon -- Social stratification in Latin America / Ralph L. Beals -- Toward the comparative study of politicization in Latin America / Daniel Goldrich -- Brazilian careers and social structure : a case history and model / Anthony Leeds -- Changes in the social stratification of an Andean hacienda / Mario C. Vázquez V --Urbanization without breakdown : a case study / Oscar Lewis -- Economic autonomy and social change in Mexican villages / John H. Kunkel -- The transition to a mass democracy in Argentina / Gino Germani -- Views of the world. Introduction / Dwight B. Heath -- World view and social relations in Guatemala / Sol Tax -- Ethos components in modern Latin American culture / John Gillin -- The Criollo outlook in the Mestizo culture of coastal Peru / Ozzie G. Simmons -- On the concept of social race in the Americas / Charles Wagley -- Mental health and migration to cities : a Peruvian case / William P. Mangin.