Social Anthropology is the sixth volume in the Handbook of Middle
American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American
Research Institute of Tulane University under the general
editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909-1979). The volume editor is
Manning Nash (1924-2001), Professor of Anthropology at the Center
for Study of Economic Development and Cultural Change, University
of Chicago. This volume provides a synthetic and comparative
summary of native ethnography and ethnology of Mexico and Central
America, written by authorities in a number of broad fields: the
native population and its identification, agricultural systems and
food patterns, economies, crafts, fine arts, kinship and family,
compadrinazgo, local and territorial units, political and religious
organizations, levels of communal relations, annual and fiesta
cycles, sickness, folklore, religion, mythology, psychological
orientations, ethnic relationships, and topics of especial modern
significance such as acculturation, nationalization, directed
change, urbanization and industrialization. The articles rely on
the accumulated ethnography of the region, but instead of being
essentially historical in treatment, they aim toward
generalizations about the uniformities and varieties of culture,
society, and personality found in Middle America. The collection is
an invaluable reference work on Middle America and a provocative
guide to scholars engaged in furthering understanding of humans and
society. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and
edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane
University with the assistance of grants from the National Science
Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research
Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
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