1st Edition

The People of Aritama The Cultural Personality of a Colombian Mestizo Village

    512 Pages
    by Routledge

    512 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Alicia Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff