Caste in a Peasant Society (eBook)

Melvin Marvin Tumin (Autor)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7684-6 (ISBN)

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An important contribution to our cumulative knowledge of castes, based on a case study of the pueblo of San Luis Jilotepeque, about ninety miles from Guatemala City in Central America. "Much of the fascination of the book derives from the intrinsic interest of the material itself its exotic locale, and its broader significance for other parts of Latin America."—The Annals.Originally published in 1952.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Analogy • basic skills • Calculation • caste • Clothing • Compadre • Consideration • Cultural emphasis • culture change • Culture of India • debt • deference • Developing Country • Deviance (sociology) • Dissident • Division of Labour • Economic Inequality • Economic mobility • Economic stratification • Edward Sapir • Employment • Etiquette • field research • Generosity • Godparent • group conflict • Guatemala City • harvest festival • Household • human organization • income • Indian people • industrialisation • Informant • Ingroups and outgroups • Interview • Ladino people • Land Tenure • Laziness • Leveling (philosophy) • Lifestyle (sociology) • livestock • Loanword • Local community • marital status • Melville J. Herskovits • Methodology • middle class • miscegenation • month • My Child • Outgroup (cladistics) • Ownership (psychology) • parent • Polyandry • Poverty • Power position • Prostitution • Recreation • Religion • Religiosity • residence • ritualization • saddle • Sampling (Statistics) • Secularization • Self-Sufficiency • separatism • Social behavior • Social Class • Social equilibrium • Social Group • Social Isolation • Socialization • Social mobility • Social organization • social position • social relation • Social Research • Social Science Research Council • Social Status • Social Structure • Society • Socioeconomics • sociological theory • Sociology • spouse • straw hat • Subsidy • Suggestion • superficiality • Tax • Upper Class • Vegetable • Wealth • Work Ethic • Work Motivation • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7684-2 / 1400876842
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7684-6 / 9781400876846