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Author Glittenberg, Jody

Title To the mountain and back : the mysteries of Guatemalan highland family life / Jody Glittenberg
Published Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, Inc., ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (x, 203 pages)
Series Anthropology online
Contents Introduction -- A man with a mission -- The face of poverty -- A penny capital system -- Xajáxac: black waters and witch doctors -- Zaragoza: 1974 fieldwork begins -- Patzún: a town of Indian power -- The Fiesta of Corpus Christi: symbols and norms in Zaragoza -- Seeing the separate systems in a culture -- Coping through competition and rigid rules: the Ladino family -- Surviving as a corporate, cooperative unit: the Indian family -- Cane huts, rats, and snakes -- Get an ark: Hurricane Fifi Hits -- Volcano Fuego: rims of fire and witchery -- Folk ideologies: the miracles and myths of Maximón -- How many children do we want? And why? -- The riddle has answers -- An epilogue: returning time and again
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201)
Notes This edition in English
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Subject Cakchikel Indians -- Social conditions
Families -- Guatemala
Cakchikel Indians -- Social conditions
Families
Rural conditions
Famille -- Guatemala.
Cakchiquel (Indiens) -- Conditions sociales.
SUBJECT Guatemala -- Rural conditions
Subject Guatemala
Guatemala -- Conditions rurales.
Form Electronic book
Other Titles Mysteries of Guatemalan highland family life