{"title":"The Food of the Gods in Chhattisgarh: Some Structural Features of Hindu Ritual","authors":"L. Babb","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.26.3.3629382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.26.3.3629382","url":null,"abstract":"Analysis of Chhattisgarhi ritual reveals a common structural core which unifies ostensibly diverse ritual expressions. This structure is grounded in the purity-pollution contrast, especially as it relates to hierarchical distinctions, and ritual is therefore integrated with some of the most pervasive features of Chhattisgarhi social structure. Two elements are combined in ritual sequences: 1) the creation of a zone of purity within which the deity (or deities) may be approached, and 2) a reciprocal transaction in foods. Food is offered to the deity and then retrieved from the altar for consumption by the participants in the ritual. The transaction allows the deity to be paid for divine favors and at the same time establishes a hierarchical opposition between the deity and the worshippers as a group. Differentiation within the congregation is obscured by the wider opposition between divinity and the worshipping group as a whole.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"26 1","pages":"287 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.26.3.3629382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60750848","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":"Gifting, Reciprocity, Savings, and Credit in Peasant Oaxaca","authors":"R. Beals","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.26.3.3629379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.26.3.3629379","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional peasant economy of Oaxaca, Mexico, recognizes gifting and reciprocity as well as systems of savings and credit. Both spontaneous and ritual gifting use economic goods to create or maintain social ends. In this case reciprocity is informal but necessary to continue the social functions of gifting. Formal systems of reciprocity also exist; they are related to social ends but involve equal returns in kind. Formal reciprocity is also recognized as a means of savings or of obtaining credit to facilitate the meeting of social obligations or to enhance social capital. Reciprocity is distinguished from other systems of savings and credit for primarily economic ends, but it is recognized as similar in nature. All are part of economizing activities.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"26 1","pages":"231 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.26.3.3629379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60750822","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":"Cousin Terms","authors":"J. Goody","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629307","url":null,"abstract":"An attempt is made to test some of the assumed correlates of cousin terms (kin terms for ego's own generation) by means of the Ethnographic Atlas (1967) as well as by a regional comparison of the material from Northern Ghana. The following correlations are significant: Omaha and patrilineal descent (or inheritance) systems, Crow and matrilineal systems, Eskimo and \"bilateral\" systems, Iroquois and preferred cross-cousin marriage. Eskimo is associated with a type of vertical inheritance that differentiates siblings from cousins. Like the Iroquois, Hawaiian terms are found in all continents with all types of descent system. This usage is associated with prohibited cross-cousin marriage (cousin = sister), but a more general factor is involved; it emphasizes the general equivalence of the kin of a man's own generation and seems broadly appropriate for those societies, outside Eurasia, where men were relatively equal in terms of the basic means of production.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"26 1","pages":"125 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60750672","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":"Converts and Tradition: The Impact of Christianity on Valley Tonga Religion","authors":"E. Colson","doi":"10.1086/SOUTJANTH.26.2.3629308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/SOUTJANTH.26.2.3629308","url":null,"abstract":"Ethnographic data on Valley Tonga of Gwembe District, Zambia, are examined for the light they shed on conditions appropriate to the development of revitalization movements. From 1957 through 1963 the majority of Valley Tonga went through a series of disrupting experiences sparked by external events which demonstrated their vulnerability to foreign control. Old communities were broken up by resettlement, their familiar environment was destroyed by a hydroelectric dam, and the political assumptions of their order were outmoded by the ending of the colonial era. It was a time of crisis but the majority of people did not respond with anything comparable to a revitalization movement. In one neighborhood a strong religious zeal associated with Christianity did appear in 1962, shortly after the African victory at the polls brought European power to an end. This movement is examined in terms of its membership, ideology, and impact upon the community. Its highly selective appeal and the content of its message are evidence that the significant factors in its development were local, and that it was a revolt against the domination of the elders rather than a response to a general crisis.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"26 1","pages":"143 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/SOUTJANTH.26.2.3629308","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60750712","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":"Saramaka Emigration and Marriage: A Case Study of Social Change","authors":"R. Price","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629309","url":null,"abstract":"Since the late 19th century, Saramaka men have spent large portions of their lives in wage labor far from tribal territory. The shortage of marriageable men at home has produced significant changes in traditional patterns of betrothal, polygyny, and conjugal residence, as well as in the role definitions of husband and wife. An analysis of how these (and other related) changes occurred is supported by comparative data from neighboring Bush Negro groups. These data also suggest that differences in patterns of emigration may lie behind many of the hitherto unexplained differences in social structure among these groups.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"26 1","pages":"157 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629309","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60750720","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":"Matrilocality, Social Solidarity, and Culture Contact: Three Case Histories","authors":"Mary W. Helms","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629311","url":null,"abstract":"Using data from three seminomadic-semisedentary bilateral societies--the Apache (with special reference to the Chiricahua and Mescalero), the Miskito of eastern Nicaragua, and the Mbayá of the Paraguayan Gran Chaco--hypotheses are presented concerning the adaptive significance of the matrilocal residence pattern characteristic of these groups. It is suggested that the functional value of cores of consanguineally related women lay not in economic activities per se but in their maintenance of traditionally oriented households under conditions of culture contact which necessitated that men be away from home for considerable periods. Matrilocality also facilitated the incorporation of large numbers of captives into these societies.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"26 1","pages":"197 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60750770","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":"Society as Organized Flow: The Tairora Case","authors":"J. B. Watson","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629306","url":null,"abstract":"Of roughly twenty years' standing, the analysis of Central Highland New Guinea social systems remains inconclusive. Problematical features basic to these (and perhaps other) social systems have received descriptive cachets like \"looseness,\" \"openness,\" and \"flexibility,\" suggestive of regional peculiarity--even anomaly--but bereft of explanatory value. The significance of intermittent, major realignment of local groups through migration tends to be overlooked. Conventional analytical perspectives of group composition, marriage, descent, and residence stress the statics of groups-on-the-ground. The present paper by contrast emphasizes the organized flow of personnel in space and time. As a case in point, the magnitude of migration en bloc in Tairora society is estimated and a migration-recruitment model outlined. Several theoretical problems arising from this view of Tairora society are listed, and one of them, the recurrent fission of kinsmen and the recruitment of outsiders, is examined for some of its wider implications.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"26 1","pages":"107 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60750655","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":"On the Conversion of Non-Agnates into Agnates among the Manga, Jimi River, Western Highlands District, New Guinea","authors":"E. Cook","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629310","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines an aspect of a New Guinea kinship terminological system in which \"genealogical amnesia\" has sometimes been cited as causing non-agnates to be re-classified as agnates. I maintain that for the Manga certain non-agnatic kintypes in specific contexts are nominally converted into agnatic kinsmen by consistent application of the kinship terminology. I also imply that the problem of non-agnates in the patrilineage is in part an epistemological problem stemming from the intersection of ethnographical concepts and indigenous concepts. I conclude that \"genealogical amnesia\" is not a causative agent but, rather, that it is induced and is therefore an epiphenomenon, i.e., a by-product.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"26 1","pages":"190 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.26.2.3629310","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60750765","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":"Population Pressure and the Social Evolution of Agriculturalists","authors":"M. Harner","doi":"10.1086/soutjanth.26.1.3629271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/soutjanth.26.1.3629271","url":null,"abstract":"Growth of population pressure is postulated to be a major determinant of human social evolution through the mechanism of competition for increasingly scarce subsistence resources. In terms of a model for societies practicing agriculture, inter- and intra-group competition for such natural resources is seen as leading to the evolution of more competitively successful cooperative units in descent (in classless societies) and in political structure, and to the evolution of class stratification. A scale for measuring population pressure in agricultural societies is proposed, and the prediction is made that a positive correlation should occur between the postulated population pressure scale and social forms in accordance with the theory. Tests are undertaken, in view of a reappraisal of Galton's problem, using all societies for which appropriate data are adequate in a universe of 1170 cultures. The results of the tests, presented as scatterplots, are consistent with the predictions based upon the theoretical model. The resource scarcity-competition model is successful in predicting evolution in descent as well as in political organization and class stratification.","PeriodicalId":85570,"journal":{"name":"Southwestern journal of anthropology","volume":"26 1","pages":"67 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/soutjanth.26.1.3629271","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60747633","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}