The People of Aritama

<p>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. <br> Chapters include: <br> · information on the health and nutritional status of the community<br> * discussion of formal education and certain sets of patterned attitudes such as those which refer to work, illness, food and personal prestige. <br> Originally published in 1961.</p> Part 1: Fundamental conditions of individual existence1. The Geographical and ethnographical setting2. The biophysiological foundations3. The sociopsychological foundationsPart 2: Specific institutional forms of social life4. Forms of social relationships5. Forms of production and property6. Forms of distribution and labourPart 3: Cultural configurations of reality7. Dimensions of the natural8. Dimensions of the supernatural9. Dimensions of consciousness10. Summary