Clan Organization in a Nahuatl‐Speaking Village of the State of Tlaxcala, Mexico

Nutini, Hugo G.

doi:10.1525/aa.1961.63.1.02a00040

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“…Socially preferred patrilocal residence and labor contracting is widespread in Mesoamerica. It is practiced by the Maya, Nahua, Mixtec, and Zapotec, among others (Tax,1952; Nutini,1961,1967,1968; Nader,1964; Selby,1974; Kellogg,2005) and very likely predates Spanish contact (Kellogg,2005). Further investigation of marriage practices, human biology, and genetics in indigenous communities across Mesoamerica should be conducted to validate and augment these findings.…”

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Marriage patterns in a Mesoamerican peasant community are biologically adaptive

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Malina

2010

American J Phys Anthropol

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Differential investment in offspring by parental and progeny gender has been discussed and periodically analyzed for the past 80 years as an evolutionary adaptive strategy. Parental investment theory suggests that parents in poor condition have offspring in poor condition. Conversely, parents in good condition give rise to offspring in good condition. As formalized in the Trivers-Willard hypothesis (TWH), investment in daughters will be greater under poor conditions while sons receive greater parental investment under good conditions. Condition is ultimately equated to offspring reproductive fitness, with parents apparently using a strategy to maximize their genetic contribution to future generations. Analyses of sex ratio have been used to support parental investment theory and in many instances, though not all, results provide support for TWH. In the present investigation, economic strategies were analyzed in the context of offspring sex ratio and survival to reproductive age in a Zapotec-speaking community in the Valley of Oaxaca, southern Mexico. Growth status of children, adult stature, and agricultural resources were analyzed as proxies for parental and progeny condition in present and prior generations. Traditional marriage practice in Mesoamerican peasant communities is patrilocal postnuptial residence with investments largely favoring sons. The alternative, practiced by ∼25% of parents, is matrilocal postnuptial residence which is an investment favoring daughters. Results indicated that sex ratio of offspring survival to reproductive age was related to economic strategy and differed significantly between the patrilocal and matrilocal strategies. Variance in sex ratio was affected by condition of parents and significant differences in survival to reproductive age were strongly associated with economic strategy. While the results strongly support TWH, further studies in traditional anthropological populations are needed.

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Marriage patterns in a Mesoamerican peasant community are biologically adaptive

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Malina

2010

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…The ethnological interpretations on pre-Colombian Maya kinship used 16th-to 18th-century fragmentary post-Colombian records of kin terms and names, structural-functionalist analogies, modern ethnographic and direct historical analogy, and epigraphic data on royal successions (Ensor, 2013b). One tradition claims patrilineal descent (Beals, 1932;Haviland, 1977;Tozzer, 1907); patrilineal descent groups (Haviland, 1970(Haviland, , 1973McAnany, 1995;Nutini, 1961); patrilineal descent with crosscousin marriage (Eggan, 1934); Omaha descent, marriage, and kin terminology (Hopkins, 1988); patrilocality (Haviland, 1963(Haviland, , 1968; or patrilineal segmentary social organization (Carmack, 1973(Carmack, , 1981. Others claim nonpatrilineal models: double descent (Roys, 1940;Thompson, 1982); Kariera kinship (Coe, 1965;Hage, 2003;Lounsbury, n.d.;Thompson, 1982); Dravidian or Tetradic terminology (Borodatora & Kozhanovskaya, 1999); and the allegedly "non-kin-based," "house society" model (Gillespie, 2000; see critiques by Ensor, 2011Ensor, , 2013b.…”

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Testing Ethnological Theories on Prehistoric Kinship

Ensor

2017

Cross-Cultural Research

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Although not a new topic, there is a growing trend in ethnology to interpret changing kinship terminology, social organization, and marriage practices deep into prehistory. These efforts are largely guided by phylogenetic, neoevolutionary, and historical particularist theoretical models using 19th to 20th century ethnographically recorded kin terminology. However, the "high-level" theoretical models and their assumptions are untestable without data dating to prehistory. Archeological kinship analysis based on cross-cultural "mid-level" factual correspondence between social organization and patterns in material culture, which is not biased by any given "high-level" theory, can empirically test the ethnological models and assumptions. Archeological case studies on the Chontal Maya and Hohokam illustrate problems in phylogenetic, neoevolutionary, and historical particularist theoretical assumptions. Instead, the results are consistent with contemporary anthropological theory emphasizing practice and agency within historically contingent political economic social contexts.

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“…Destaca la presencia de una concentración de gran tamaño, 2,775 m 2 , que se ubica al noroeste de la meseta, justamente en el lomerío denominado la Loma del Viento, a 1,338.3 m del centro del sitio. La concentración # 9 puede interpretarse como una división interna de la capital, de índole social y territorial, similar a un barrio o calpulli (Monzón 1949; Nutini 1961; Sanders y Price 1968). Aquí los actores de alto estatus social, posiblemente emparentados, dirigieron las actividades ceremoniales y productivas, y administraron a la comunidad local.…”

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Densidad Poblacional en La Capital Olmeca De San Lorenzo, Veracruz

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Cyphers

2017

Ancient Mesoam

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RESUMENEn los últimos años los análisis de densidad poblacional y distribución espacial conforman temas medulares sobre el desarrollo de las sociedades. Una manera de abordar estos temas en la capital olmeca de San Lorenzo, Veracruz, gira en torno al análisis y la interpretación de las pruebas de barreno realizadas de manera sistemática e intensiva. El presente estudio permitió reconstruir el número y tamaño de las estructuras arquitectónicas ubicadas en los diversos sectores del sitio y, a partir de éstos, estimar el número total de pobladores en el asentamiento con el fin de llegar a inferir tendencias en el desarrollo de la primera capital olmeca.

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Clan Organization in a Nahuatl‐Speaking Village of the State of Tlaxcala, Mexico

Cited by 16 publications

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Marriage patterns in a Mesoamerican peasant community are biologically adaptive

Marriage patterns in a Mesoamerican peasant community are biologically adaptive

Testing Ethnological Theories on Prehistoric Kinship

Densidad Poblacional en La Capital Olmeca De San Lorenzo, Veracruz

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