The Social anthropology of Latin America
Subtitle: essays in honor of Ralph Leon Beals.
By: Edited by Walter Goldschmidt & Harry Hoijer.
Contributors: Beals, Ralph Leon, 1901-; Goldschmidt, Walter Rochs, 1913- ed.; Hoijer, Harry, 1904- ed.
Series: Latin American studies, v. 14; Latin American studies (University of California, Los Angeles. Latin American Center) ;; v. 14.
Publisher: Latin American Center, University of California
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Beals, Ralph Leon, 1901-  -- Bibliography; Indians -- Social life and customs; Latin America -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Tarascan folk religion, Christian or pagan? By P. Carrasco.; title: Indian acculturation in Nayarit: the Cora response to mestizoization, by T.B. Hinton.; title: Bonds of laughter among the Tarahumara Indians: a rethinking of joking relationship theory, by J.G. Kennedy.; title: A web of land: differential acculturation in southern Oaxaca, by B.N. Litzler.; title: Labor migration and family structure in the Tlaxcala-Pueblan area, Mexico, by H.A. Nutini and T.D. Murphy.; title: Contrasting forms of nativism among the Mayos and Yaquis of Sonora, Mexico, by E.H. Spicer.; title: Urbanization and a traditional market system, by R. Waterbury.; title: A survey of provincial power structure in Guatemala, by R.N. Adams.; title: Panajachel a generation later, by S. Tax and R. Hinshaw.; title: Cultural evolution in South America, by J.H. Steward.; title: Ethnicity and social mobility in Chancay Valley, Peru, by L.C. Faron.; title: Stratification and pluralism in the Bolivian Yungas, by M.B. Léons.; title: The mechanisms of culture change, by K.H. Schwerin.; title: Goajiro kinship and the eiruku cycle, by J. Wilbert.