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The People of Aritama : the Cultural Personality of a Colombian Mestizo Village.
This book covers the life of a small Mestizo community in Columbia, with its people and institutions, its traditions in the past and its outlook on the future. Chapters include: · information on the health and nutritional status of the community * discussion of formal education and certain sets of p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyrights Page; Original Copyrights Page; Contents; Plates; Preface; Introduction; PART I. FUNDAMENTAL CONDITIONS OF INDIVIDUAL EXISTENCE; I. THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL SETTING; Roads, Transportation, and Communications; The Valley, the Village, and the People; Aritama: Prehistoric and Historic Background; The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; II. THE BIOPHYSIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS; The Quantity and Quality of Food; The Preparation and Consumption of Food; The Availability and Acquisition of Food; General Health Characteristics; Local Sanitary and Hygienic Conditions.
- III. THE SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONSFormal Schooling; Puberty and Adolescence; Late Childhood; Early Childhood; Infancy; PART II. SPECIFIC INSTITUTIONAL FORMS OF SOCIAL LIFE; IV. FORMS OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; Recreational Activities; Interpersonal Relations within the Family; Personal Names; Illegitimacy and Adoption; Kin and Kinship; Family Structure and Household Composition; Race, Class, and Status; Historical Perspective; V. FORMS OF PRODUCTION AND PROPERTY; House Construction; Illegal Distilling; Home Industries; Hunting and Fishing; Domestic Animals; Cash Crops.
- Garden Crops and TreesLand and Land Use; VI. FORMS OF DISTRIBUTION AND LABOR; The Daily Rhythm of Work; Attitudes and Patterns of Work; Co-operative Labor; Labor Division and Specialization; Patterns of Food Exchange; Corregimiento and Church Finances; Household Budgets; Commerce and Credit; PART III. CULTURAL CONFIGURATIONS OF REALITY; VII. DIMENSIONS OF THE NATURAL; The Sick Community; The Psychocultural Interpretation of Food; The Social Interpretation of Disease; Midwifery; The Specialists; Prophylaxis, Diagnosis, and Therapy; Popular Etiology and Classification of Diseases.
- The Human Body and the Concept of DiseaseVIII. DIMENSIONS OF THE SUPERNATURAL; Omens, Harbingers, and Taboos; Individual Powers; Magical Aggression; Some Aspects of Ritual in Everyday Life; Death and the Beyond; The Fiesta Cycle; Sacred Sites and Offerings; The Framework of Supernatural Belief; IX. DIMENSIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS; Folktales and Their Significance; Dreams and Their Interpretation; Comatose, Hypnagogic, and Other Hallucinations; Apotropaic Attitudes and Hallucinatory Images; The Elaboration of Traumatic Experience; The Character of Hallucinatory Experience; X. SUMMARY.
- The Changing SceneWorld View, Values, and Personality Types; APPENDIX: CURES FOR DISEASES; INDEX.