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production and the patterning of social relations and values in two Guatemalan villages
Author(s) -
LOUCKY JAMES
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1979.6.4.02a00060
Subject(s) - peasant , value (mathematics) , production (economics) , sociology , geography , rope , economic geography , relations of production , archaeology , economics , mathematics , macroeconomics , statistics , algorithm
Peasant communities in highland Guatemala have developed distinctive production specializations based largely on factors that are ecological in nature. Household heads from a village specializing in rope making are compared with neighboring agriculturalists, and a patterned difference in social features and cognitive and value orientations emerges. Opportunities to utilize extensively women's and children's labor are among the components of rope making that most strongly influence these patterns.