TY - BOOK AU - Tumin,Melvin Marvin TI - Caste in a Peasant Society T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9780691627274 AV - HN150.S3 T8 U1 - 323.3 PY - 2015///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Caste KW - Guatemala KW - Peasants KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; PART I. THE SETTING --; CHAPTER 1. ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORK --; CHAPTER 2. SOCIALIZATION, EDUCATION, AND RECREATION --; CHAPTER 3. RELIGION, MEDICINE, AND MAGIC --; CHAPTER 4. THE PUEBLO: ITS RELATIONS AND REPUTATION --; PART II. LADINO-INDIAN SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES --; CHAPTER 5. PHYSICAL FACTORS AND THEIR SOCIAL DEFINITIONS --; CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE, LITERACY, AND EDUCATION --; CHAPTER 7. CLOTHING --; CHAPTER 8. HOUSING: QUALITY, STYLE, AND LOCATION --; CHAPTER 9. ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND ATTITUDES --; PART III. TENSIONS AND EQUILIBRIA --; CHAPTER 10. THE GODPARENT COMPLEX --; CHAPTER 11. THE DIFFERENTIAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION --; CHAPTER 12. THE DIFFERENTIAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF KINSHIP --; CHAPTER 13. WHERE THE PEOPLE MEET --; CHAPTER 14. WHERE THE PEOPLE STAY APART --; CHAPTER 15. INTRA-GROUP STRATIFICATION --; CHAPTER 16. GROUP IMAGES --; CHAPTER 17. LEVELS OF ASPIRATION AND ASSIMILATION --; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE --; APPENDIX I. METHODOLOGY --; APPENDIX II. THE SCHEDULE --; APPENDIX III. LADINO OPINIONS ABOUT INTERMARRIAGE --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400876846 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400876846 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400876846.jpg ER -