The people of Aritama : the cultural personality of a Columbian [i.e. Colombian] mestizo village

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The people of Aritama : the cultural personality of a Columbian [i.e. Colombian] mestizo village

Gerardo and Alicia Reichel-Dolmatoff

(Routledge library editions, . Anthropology and ethnography ; 66 . South America ; 4)

Routledge, 2004, c1961

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Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1961

Includes index

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Description

This book covers the life of a small Mestizo community in Columbia, with its people and institutions, its traditions in the past and its outlook on the future. Chapters include: * information on the health and nutritional status of the community * discussion of formal education and certain sets of patterned attitudes such as those which refer to work, illness, food and personal prestige. Originally published in 1961.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Fundamental conditions of individual existence1. The Geographical and ethnographical setting2. The biophysiological foundations3. The sociopsychological foundationsPart 2: Specific institutional forms of social life4. Forms of social relationships5. Forms of production and property6. Forms of distribution and labourPart 3: Cultural configurations of reality7. Dimensions of the natural8. Dimensions of the supernatural9. Dimensions of consciousness10. Summary

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