The Bolivian Aymara
By: by Hans C. Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler.
Contributors: Buechler, Judith-Maria, joint author.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Aymara Indians
Notes: Bibliography: p. 113-114.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The setting -- History. Community history -- The agrarian reform -- Economic organization. Land tenure and the agricultural cycle. Pre-reform agricultural cycle -- Post-reform agriculture -- Marketing. A market woman -- Childhood. Pregnancy and birth -- Infancy -- The child’s position in the community -- Formal education. The history of the school -- Stories -- Adolescent girls -- Adolescent boys -- Young adulthood -- The family. Manuel’s household -- Land tenure and inheritance -- Changes in households -- Effects of migration -- More distant ties -- The community. Intersectional ties and disputes -- Decision making -- The role of migrants in the community -- County politics -- The fiesta system. The fiesta pastern -- Children and adolescent fiestas. Kachua -- Interpretation -- Crisis rites -- All saints’ -- Sex and death symbolism in Todos Santos and the Asuti -- Extra-community fiestas -- Limits of participation -- Religion. The social origin of Aymara thought -- Principles of Aymara folk taxonomy -- Manipulating the supernatural. Magicians -- Sacrifice, exchange, and mediation -- Curing -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References and recommended readings.