The People of Aritama

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.

Autorentext

Alicia Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

Inhalt

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