FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W102475456> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W102475456 endingPage "93" @default.
• W102475456 startingPage "93" @default.
• W102475456 abstract "One of the most perplexing topics in Mesoamerican ethnology is the customary(2) social unit that mediates relations between household (or domestic group) and community in Mesoamerican Indian and rural society (Nutini 1976:14; Thomas 1979:45; for the label rural, see Chambers and Young 1979). (Mesoamerica here refers to the most intensively studied portions of this region, central and southern Mexico and Guatemala, but the region also includes Belize, El Salvador, and small sections of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica [Kirchhoff 1968:23; Weaver 1993:2].) Scholars routinely mention this social unit among the distinctive features of the region's social organization (e.g., Kirchhoff 1968:30; Redfield and Tax 1968:33; Wolf 1959:220). It is a prominent element in local identity, politics, and ceremonial life in many Indian and rural communities (Guiteras Holmes 1968:104; Thomas 1988:195). There is no consensus on its defining characteristics, however, or its prevalence (now and in the past), or its chief variants, or, very importantly, what it should be called for comparative purposes. These issues form the substance of this article, but I will propose a definition and an analytical label at this point to facilitate discussion. The social arrangement in question is simultaneously an institutionalized alliance of households (or domestic groups) and a formal community subdivision in a hierarchically ordered, vertically integrated, customary system of social organization. It is a social segment in the strict sense employed by Service (1962:18-19) and Firth (1964:60-62), one of a set of like units that relate to one another in an orderly fashion, and whose functions serve to integrate one level of social organization with another. The unit is identified often in the literature as the Mesoamerican barrio. For reasons explained further on, barrio is an unfortunate choice of label. The alternative I propose is customary subdivision. Not every unit of organization found at the level between household and community is a customary subdivision. Excluded are units whose only purpose is to serve civil-administrative needs, such as the noncustomary subdivisions known as municipal tenencias and town secciones or demarcaciones. These are externally imposed inventions for the purposes of tax collection, censuses, and so forth. They bear little or no relevance to community organization unless their boundaries happen to correspond with the community's customary subdivisions (Guiteras Holmes 1968:105; Hunt and Nash 1967:253ff.; Redfield 1928:287; Slade 1992:50). Likewise disqualified are customary social units devoted solely to the needs of their membership, such as informal surname groups and kindreds (Taggart 1976), ritual kinship bonds or compadrazgo (Nutini 1984; Nutini and Bell 1980), reciprocal exchange networks such as ayuda, vuelta mano, and guelaguetza (Nutini 1968; Stephen 1991), patron-client dyads (Foster 1961, 1963), political factions (Friedrich 1977; Hunt 1976), and voluntary religious fellowships (Dow 1974; Nash 1958:62-64). Customary subdivision systems, by contrast, exhibit these features: an established set of co-equal subdivisions; community rules for changing the number of recognized subdivisions; community rules for assigning subdivision affiliation, such that all or virtually all the households in the community are incorporated into the system; and the formal or informal authority to draft labor from the members for both the benefit of the constituent households and the benefit of the community (Kirchhoff in Guiteras Holmes 1968:117; Lockhart 1992:16; Mulhare 1986:396, 406-08). Many qualitatively different kinds of social arrangements serve as the basis for customary subdivision systems in Mesoamerica; e.g., descent groups, territorial wards, and less easily defined groups that merge kinship, territoriality, and other criteria in varying degrees. Several obstacles stand in the way of the systematic, comparative study of these systems: 1. …" @default.
• W102475456 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W102475456 creator A5047878041 @default.
• W102475456 date "1996-01-01" @default.
• W102475456 modified "2023-10-03" @default.
• W102475456 title "Barrio Matters: Toward an Ethnology of Mesoamerican Customary Social Units" @default.
• W102475456 cites W1501143441 @default.
• W102475456 cites W1532400657 @default.
• W102475456 cites W1546850849 @default.
• W102475456 cites W1557661352 @default.
• W102475456 cites W1591053409 @default.
• W102475456 cites W1964115268 @default.
• W102475456 cites W1965667500 @default.
• W102475456 cites W1973233481 @default.
• W102475456 cites W1977397651 @default.
• W102475456 cites W1988150777 @default.
• W102475456 cites W1994968517 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2006025352 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2007576150 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2032615887 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2035461073 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2040512025 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2046630950 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2049901542 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2057653956 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2059106795 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2066562820 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2067206648 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2078102469 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2090386886 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2093655250 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2097218356 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2102408010 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2123563869 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2149311217 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2164011581 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2164646191 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2315318210 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2316890704 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2317363707 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2317662379 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2777808299 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2797126314 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2904206861 @default.
• W102475456 cites W2980087548 @default.
• W102475456 cites W3208120028 @default.
• W102475456 cites W35774203 @default.
• W102475456 cites W384959071 @default.
• W102475456 cites W626766389 @default.
• W102475456 cites W650130394 @default.
• W102475456 doi "https://doi.org/10.2307/3774072" @default.
• W102475456 hasPublicationYear "1996" @default.
• W102475456 type Work @default.
• W102475456 sameAs 102475456 @default.
• W102475456 citedByCount "17" @default.
• W102475456 countsByYear W1024754562012 @default.
• W102475456 countsByYear W1024754562013 @default.
• W102475456 countsByYear W1024754562015 @default.
• W102475456 countsByYear W1024754562016 @default.
• W102475456 countsByYear W1024754562021 @default.
• W102475456 countsByYear W1024754562022 @default.
• W102475456 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W102475456 hasAuthorship W102475456A5047878041 @default.
• W102475456 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W102475456 hasConcept C19165224 @default.
• W102475456 hasConcept C2549261 @default.
• W102475456 hasConcept C53553401 @default.
• W102475456 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W102475456 hasConceptScore W102475456C144024400 @default.
• W102475456 hasConceptScore W102475456C19165224 @default.
• W102475456 hasConceptScore W102475456C2549261 @default.
• W102475456 hasConceptScore W102475456C53553401 @default.
• W102475456 hasConceptScore W102475456C95457728 @default.
• W102475456 hasIssue "2" @default.
• W102475456 hasLocation W1024754561 @default.
• W102475456 hasOpenAccess W102475456 @default.
• W102475456 hasPrimaryLocation W1024754561 @default.
• W102475456 hasRelatedWork W1975204426 @default.
• W102475456 hasRelatedWork W1975662923 @default.
• W102475456 hasRelatedWork W2084269275 @default.
• W102475456 hasRelatedWork W2317722987 @default.
• W102475456 hasRelatedWork W2321816158 @default.
• W102475456 hasRelatedWork W2323652808 @default.
• W102475456 hasRelatedWork W2569018531 @default.
• W102475456 hasRelatedWork W2796310415 @default.
• W102475456 hasRelatedWork W4246168209 @default.
• W102475456 hasRelatedWork W832350293 @default.
• W102475456 hasVolume "35" @default.
• W102475456 isParatext "false" @default.
• W102475456 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W102475456 magId "102475456" @default.
• W102475456 workType "article" @default.