{"title":"Problems of Power in a Plural Society: Asians in Kenya","authors":"Donna Nelson","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629222","url":null,"abstract":"Current theories of stratification in plural societies emphasize the cultural and social homogeneity of the major sections in these societies. Data collected on the Asian population in Kenya, however, suggest that a major section in this plural society is fragmented into a number of different communities. No institutional framework exists which effectively cuts across communal boundaries. Moreover, the nature of the social divisions within the various Asian communities in Kenya, as elsewhere in East Africa, favors the rise of leaders from the upper strata only, i.e., persons of high caste or high economic status or both.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"255 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1972-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629222","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60753374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yam Symbolism in the Sepik: An Interpretative Account","authors":"Donald Tuzin","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629221","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay yam-oriented beliefs and behavior patterns are analyzed in an effort to understand the symbolic complexities surrounding yams in the Sepik area of New Guinea. It is postulated that the yam is symbolically multivalent with regard to \"male pride,\" \"body,\" and \"penis.\" The symbolic equations linking yams to these referents function, respectively, at the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious levels of individual awareness. In formulating this conceptualization attention is paid to certain results of neurophysiological experimentation and to the relevant clinical findings of psychoanalysis. The resulting model of yam multivalence is applied to the analysis of observed instances of yam-oriented behavior, and it is found to enable interpretations of behavior patterns not comprehended in a unidimensional view of yam symbolism. This suggests that the levels of symbolic meaning interact in a mutually reinforcing way and that this dynamism contributes to the persistence of the symbolic complex over time.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"230 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1972-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629221","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60753805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diggers and Doggers: Parallel Failures in Economic Acculturation","authors":"R. Gould, D. Fowler, C. Fowler","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629223","url":null,"abstract":"The histories of economic acculturation of the Western Desert Aborigines of Australia and the Numic-speaking Indians of the Great Basin of North America are compared in a manner similar to that utilized by Murphy and Steward (1955) in their study of Northeastern Algonkians and the Mundurucú of South America. Numerous and specific parallels in economic and social change are noted, leading to the conclusion that both of these desert hunting-and-gathering societies have followed a pattern of economic acculturation characterized by increased dependence on European food and goods rather than by the establishment of a viable relationship to the world economy.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"265 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1972-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629223","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60753487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cognation, Endogamy, and Teknonymy: The Piaroa Example","authors":"J. Kaplan","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629224","url":null,"abstract":"The ideal residence unit of the Piaroa, a horticultural people of the Orinoco Basin, is an endogamous cognatic kinship group. To maintain the consanguineal nature of the kinship group as a whole, individual relationships established as affinal must not be permanent to its structure. The teknonym, by transforming the \"affine\" relationship to that of \"kin,\" recognizes the ephemeral nature of affinity and is a symbolic statement of the unity of the group and of the artificiality of distinctions within it.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"282 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1972-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.28.3.3629224","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60753527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occupation and Marriage in a Mexican Trading Community","authors":"S. Plattner","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629342","url":null,"abstract":"The occupational choices are examined of married couples from a small town in Chiapas, Mexico. The pattern of occupation within households where both partners work is analyzed, using a simple economic model of preference for increased income and prestige. A hypothetical pattern of marriages and occupations is created and compared to the observed configuration. A probability distribution for the similarity of the two patterns is then constructed; this statistical test indicates that the similarity between them would be extremely unlikely to have occurred by chance. The conclusion is that the desire for increased income and prestige determines the pattern of occupation and marriage choices.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"193 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1972-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629342","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60753103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Areal Studies and Culture History: Language as a Key to the Historical Study of Culture Contact","authors":"Joel Sherzer, R. Bauman","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629339","url":null,"abstract":"Linguistics has long been recognized as a valuable tool in unraveling culture history. The types of historical linguistic relationships usually focused on, however, are genetic. Diffusional areal relationships provide valuable evidence of communicative contacts among groups and of the nature of this contact. Such relationships can be found in all aspects of language--syntactic-semantic, phonetic, and lexical--as well as in such uses of language as folklore. Examples are drawn from North American Indian languages.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"131 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1972-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629339","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60753298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629343","url":null,"abstract":"Manuscripts must be typed on 81/2 x 11 inch paper, using one side of the sheet and leaving liberal margins for editorial marks. Do not submit carbons, ditto, or other unclear copy. All typing (text, quotations, bibliography, footnotes) should be double-spaced. References to source material are to be included in the text by citing within parentheses the author's last name, date of source, and page: e.g., (Boas 1910:274). Short quotations of two or three lines should be enclosed in quotation marks and incorporated in the text; longer quotations are to be indented without using quotation marks. A bibliography must accompany each article; details of bibliographical form can be obtained from any issue of the Journal beginning with volume 19. If an author feels it necessary to use footnotes to provide an inconspicuous place for auxiliary comments and","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1972-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629343","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60753165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anarchy and Ecology: Political Society among the Majangir","authors":"J. Stauder","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629340","url":null,"abstract":"The Majangir are shifting field cultivators who exploit an abundance of forested land in southwest Ethiopia. Lacking fixed property and adapted to residential mobility and geographical dispersal over an uncontested and underpopulated ecological niche, the Majangir have developed an anarchic and amorphous political society. Their egalitarian society lacks institutionalized political leadership as well as organized corporate groups of any kind. Self-help and the feud are common; in the absence of institutional mechanisms for settling disputes, they tend to resolve conflicts by moving their residence. Their low level of social and political integration sets the Majangir apart from most horticultural peoples and does not fit the stage typologies proposed by several evolutionary theorists.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"153 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1972-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629340","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60752995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Evidence for the Altithermal in Texas and Mexico","authors":"C. R. Nance","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629341","url":null,"abstract":"This paper summarizes cultural data which support the existence of the Altithermal in Texas and Mexico. Two patterns are described. In central Mexico there is evidence for an economic shift in emphasis from pre-Altithermal hunting, to gathering, and back to hunting at the end of the Altithermal. This pattern may extend north and west to coastal southern California. In central Texas and northeast Mexico, a pattern of Altithermal population decrease and resettlement is suggested, contemporaneous with a similar pattern hypothesized for the Great Plains (Wedel 1964).","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"251 1","pages":"169 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1972-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.28.2.3629341","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60753049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metaphors and Folk Classification","authors":"M. Rosaldo","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.28.1.3629445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.28.1.3629445","url":null,"abstract":"Most work in the field of ethnographic semantics has concentrated on the determination of referential correspondences between folk categories and objective experience. Here, it is argued that the relationship of words to referents varies in different kinds of contexts; and a properly contextual account of naming requires that we admit \"metaphorical\" considerations in a description of the meaning of words. The data to be considered concern the use and naming of plants in the magical spells of the Ilongots, a hill people of Northern Luzon, Philippines...","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"28 1","pages":"83 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1972-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.28.1.3629445","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60753015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}