Douglas E Brintnall
Biographic Data
| ID | 172015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas E Brintnall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas E |
| FAMILY NAME | Brintnall |
| SIGNATURE | BRINTNALL D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Dakota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Revolt Against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala
The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz [and Comments and Reply]
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
Is Guatemalan Indian Society Really Changeless? A Rebuttal to Partridge
Revolt Against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala
A Model of Changing Group Relations in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala
This paper proposes a model to describe and account for the changing character of ethnic and race relations in the Mayan highlands of Guatemala. The model is based primarily on ethnographic and ethnohistorical information gathered in the community of Aguacatan, a town and its surrounding territory in the northwestern highlands. The model distinguishes between "ethnic relations" among different Indian groups and "race relations" between Indians an…
Race relations in the southeastern highlands of Mesoamerica
A recent ethnographic truism concerning the southeastern highlands of Mesoamerica is that the distinction between Indian and Ladino is not "racial", but rather is "cultural", and therefore that Indians and Ladinos are most appropriately designated as "ethnic groups" and not "races". This paper traces the history of the development of this truism but then argues that the dichotomy between racial and cultural criteria of group de- finition is unwar…
The Decline of a Babysitting Cooperative in the Non-Cooperative American Economy
The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz [and Comments and Reply]
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
Revolt Against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala
Race relations in the southeastern highlands of Mesoamerica
A recent ethnographic truism concerning the southeastern highlands of Mesoamerica is that the distinction between Indian and Ladino is not "racial", but rather is "cultural", and therefore that Indians and Ladinos are most appropriately designated as "ethnic groups" and not "races". This paper traces the history of the development of this truism but then argues that the dichotomy between racial and cultural criteria of group de- finition is unwar…
Revolt Against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala
Is Guatemalan Indian Society Really Changeless? A Rebuttal to Partridge
A Model of Changing Group Relations in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala
This paper proposes a model to describe and account for the changing character of ethnic and race relations in the Mayan highlands of Guatemala. The model is based primarily on ethnographic and ethnohistorical information gathered in the community of Aguacatan, a town and its surrounding territory in the northwestern highlands. The model distinguishes between "ethnic relations" among different Indian groups and "race relations" between Indians an…
The Decline of a Babysitting Cooperative in the Non-Cooperative American Economy
Race relations in the southeastern highlands of Mesoamerica
A recent ethnographic truism concerning the southeastern highlands of Mesoamerica is that the distinction between Indian and Ladino is not "racial", but rather is "cultural", and therefore that Indians and Ladinos are most appropriately designated as "ethnic groups" and not "races". This paper traces the history of the development of this truism but then argues that the dichotomy between racial and cultural criteria of group de- finition is unwar…
A Model of Changing Group Relations in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala
This paper proposes a model to describe and account for the changing character of ethnic and race relations in the Mayan highlands of Guatemala. The model is based primarily on ethnographic and ethnohistorical information gathered in the community of Aguacatan, a town and its surrounding territory in the northwestern highlands. The model distinguishes between "ethnic relations" among different Indian groups and "race relations" between Indians an…
Revolt Against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala
Is Guatemalan Indian Society Really Changeless? A Rebuttal to Partridge
The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz [and Comments and Reply]
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
Revolt Against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Guatemala
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Modernization theory (3 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (3 works)