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Analysis of an Aesthetic Values Test: Detection of Inter‐Subgroup Differences Within a Pottery Producing Community in Mexico 1
Author(s) -
GOLDE PEGGY,
KRAEMER HELENA C.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1973.75.5.02a00040
Subject(s) - pottery , peasant , test (biology) , archaeology , geography , demography , sociology , geology , paleontology
This paper demonstrates that it is possible to devise a test to elicit aesthetic values to be used to detect subgroup differences within a small peasant village of Nahuatl‐speakers in Guerrero, Mexico. Fifty‐one minimal pairs of drawings or photographs were made or selected to isolate specific visual attributes hypothesized to be related to characteristics of the subgroups: sex, the occupation of painting on pottery, the relative degree of travel to other cities in Mexico. The results of a χ 2 test revealed nine of the fifty‐one pairs to be significantly heterogeneous (5% level) and six of the nineteen attributes selected showed heterogeneity among the four subgroups, significantly more than would be expected by chance.