The Isthmus Zapotecs
Subtitle: women's roles in cultural context.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Zapotec Indians -- Social life and customs; Indian women -- Mexico; Anthropology, Cultural -- Mexico; Ethnology -- Mexico; Indians, North America; Role; Women
Notes: Bibliography: p. 119-122.
Table of contents: title: Wind, water, mountain, and plain : the physical setting -- Binii gula’sa’ : prehistory and history. Prehistory -- History. Independence and revolution, the macrovista -- Independence and revolution, the microvista -- San Juan Evangelista today. Relationship to larger community -- San Juan Evangelista, the pueblo -- The subsistence base. Patterns of subsistence, traditional and modern. Land tenure and the social system -- Other property and ownership rights -- Sexual division of labor -- Processing and selling -- Selling by men -- Selling by women -- Economic spheres open only to women -- Processing-vending related to other household duties -- Conclusion. Women’s attitudes toward processing-vending -- Campesinos’ perception of their economic position -- Rhythms of Zapotec peasant life. Daily routine -- The life cycle. Birth to marriage -- Courtship and marriage -- Death and rituals for the dead -- The wearing of mourning by women -- Religion and ritual. The fiestas. Community-centered fiestas -- Family-centered fiestas -- Hosting family-centered fiestas -- Status through compadrazgo -- Participation in fiestas as invited guests -- Participation in fiestas as voluntary contributor -- Other religious experiences. Summary -- Social relations in nonritual contexts. Behavior to avoid arousing envy -- Securing the solar -- Social relations in an insecure environment. Social relations within the household -- Social relations with kin outside the household -- Social relations with compadres -- Social relations among neighbors -- Social relations in the community -- Summary -- Women and men : women’s roles. A role model. Formalized and nonformalized roles -- Public and private domains -- The sexes and role type -- Universal role assignment by sex -- Roles and the “status of women” -- Nonformalized roles -- Formalized roles and isthmus Zapotec women -- Nonformalized roles and isthmus Zapotec women. Overt and covert nonformalized roles -- Women’s overt nonformalized roles -- Women’s covert nonformalized roles -- Summary -- Conclusion. Images, public and private -- Changes -- Isthmus Zapotec in an enlarging world -- Glossary.