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egalitarian structures in Iberian social systems: the contexts of turn‐taking in town and country
Author(s) -
FREEMAN SUSAN TAX
Publication year - 1987
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.1987.14.3.02a00040
Subject(s) - ideology , sociology , perspective (graphical) , social structure , social system , rural area , economic geography , position (finance) , political economy , economy , political science , social science , geography , politics , economics , law , finance , artificial intelligence , computer science
Corporately organized, egalitarian systems of turn‐taking and cost‐sharing in local economic, administrative, and ceremonial life are found in Iberian communities of different sizes. Here their occurrence in the countryside is reviewed and analyzed together with new material, historical and modern, on the Spanish city of Soria, which gives perspective on the integration of egalitarian structures into the hierarchical wider society. Ideological aspects of the turn‐taking systems are explored and the position of the “rotative community” vis‐à‐vis the wider social system, with their contrasting styles of interpersonal relations, is assessed, [social organization, economic institutions, ritual organization, urban social structure, urban history, Spain, Iberia]