Article
Production and the patterning of social relations and values in two Guatemalan villages
American Ethnologist
(1979)
Abstract
Peasant communities in highland Guatemala have developed distinctive production specializations based largely on factors that are ecological in nature. Household heads from a village specializing in rope making are compared with neighboring agriculturalists, and a patterned difference in social features and cognitive and value orientations emerges. Opportunities to utilize extensively women's and children's labor are among the components of rope making that most strongly influence these patterns.
Keywords
- Guatemalan peasant communities,
- Social relations,
- Guatemalan villages
Disciplines
Publication Date
November, 1979
DOI
10.1525/ae.1979.6.4.02a00060
Citation Information
James Loucky. "Production and the patterning of social relations and values in two Guatemalan villages" American Ethnologist Vol. 6 Iss. 4 (1979) p. 702 - 722 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/james-loucky/45/