ABSTRACT

This book covers the life of a small Mestizo community in Columbia, with its people and institutions, its traditions in the past and its outlook on the future.
Chapters include:
· information on the health and nutritional status of the community
* discussion of formal education and certain sets of patterned attitudes such as those which refer to work, illness, food and personal prestige.
Originally published in 1961.

chapter I

Introduction

part I|125 pages

PART I Fundamental Conditions of Individual Existence

chapter 2|37 pages

II The biophysiological foundations

chapter 3|49 pages

III THe sociopsychological foundations

part II|145 pages

PART II Specific Institutional Forms of Social Life

chapter 4|73 pages

IV Forms of social relationships

chapter 5|33 pages

V Forms of production and property

chapter 6|37 pages

VI Forms of distribution and labor

part III|191 pages

PART III Cultural Configurations of Reality

chapter 7|62 pages

VII Dimensions of the natural

chapter 8|76 pages

VIII Dimensions of the supernatural

chapter 9|26 pages

IX Dimensions of consciousness

chapter 10|25 pages

X Summary