Mary E Odell
Biographic Data
| ID | 197709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary E Odell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary E |
| FAMILY NAME | Odell |
| SIGNATURE | ODELL M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Children of Conquest in the New Age: Ethnicity and Change Among the Highland Maya
This article will examine ethnic relations in the countryside as a cause of rural/urban migration among the Maya Indians of western Guatemala and will question the inevitability of such migration by looking at a contrasting course of development among the Maya of southern Mexico. Comparison of Zinacantan in Mexico and Aguacatán in Guatemala suggests that rural development may be an alternative to migration to cities, but only if such development …
The domestic context of production and reproduction in a Guatemalan community
Apropos of the Typological Model of Social Change: In Memory of Marcelo Bormida [and Comments]
This article examines the evolution of the traditionalism-modernism model in Latin America and critically reviews several recent tests in the region that appear to suggest that the typology should be revised as a theoretical system explaining social change. With this statement as a general basis, five hypotheses are formulated, taking urbanization as the independent variable for attitude toward change, structural complexity, and social mobility. …
Biological correlates of modernization in a Guatemalan highland municipio
The demographic correlates of modernization were studied in a municipio of the Guatemalan highlands using, as indicators of modernization, the introduction of chemical fertilizers and of a religous revitalization movement. Accion Catolica. Records, taken from interviews, of 340 women divided into declines (decennial groups) within ten-year birth cohorts extending from before 1925 to 1954, were checked for representativeness against the birth regi…
The Children of Conquest in the New Age: Ethnicity and Change Among the Highland Maya
This article will examine ethnic relations in the countryside as a cause of rural/urban migration among the Maya Indians of western Guatemala and will question the inevitability of such migration by looking at a contrasting course of development among the Maya of southern Mexico. Comparison of Zinacantan in Mexico and Aguacatán in Guatemala suggests that rural development may be an alternative to migration to cities, but only if such development …
Biological correlates of modernization in a Guatemalan highland municipio
The demographic correlates of modernization were studied in a municipio of the Guatemalan highlands using, as indicators of modernization, the introduction of chemical fertilizers and of a religous revitalization movement. Accion Catolica. Records, taken from interviews, of 340 women divided into declines (decennial groups) within ten-year birth cohorts extending from before 1925 to 1954, were checked for representativeness against the birth regi…
Apropos of the Typological Model of Social Change: In Memory of Marcelo Bormida [and Comments]
This article examines the evolution of the traditionalism-modernism model in Latin America and critically reviews several recent tests in the region that appear to suggest that the typology should be revised as a theoretical system explaining social change. With this statement as a general basis, five hypotheses are formulated, taking urbanization as the independent variable for attitude toward change, structural complexity, and social mobility. …
The domestic context of production and reproduction in a Guatemalan community
The Children of Conquest in the New Age: Ethnicity and Change Among the Highland Maya
This article will examine ethnic relations in the countryside as a cause of rural/urban migration among the Maya Indians of western Guatemala and will question the inevitability of such migration by looking at a contrasting course of development among the Maya of southern Mexico. Comparison of Zinacantan in Mexico and Aguacatán in Guatemala suggests that rural development may be an alternative to migration to cities, but only if such development …
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