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social strategies and the fiesta complex In an Otavaleño community
Author(s) -
WALTER LYNN
Publication year - 1981
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.1981.8.1.02a00110
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , sociology , interpersonal ties , social relationship , geography , social science , archaeology , social psychology , psychology
The relationship between family and cargo festivals is analyzed in the context of village interaction patterns in Ahuango, an Otavaleño Indian community in northern highland Ecuador. In Ahuango, dyadic relationships of trust and continuity are established, reaffirmed, and enacted in the context of family festivals. Individuals with relatively large land‐holdings tend also to maintain more of these ties (i.e., to have larger “alliances”) than other Ahuangueños do. In the context of cargo festivals, alliances centered on more prosperous individuals act as factions. The fiesta complex is an arena in which individual interests coincide and compete. [social strategies, social networks, fiesta systems, Ecuadorian Indians, Otaveleño Indians]