Culture and Education in the Midwestern Highlands of Guatemala

Education is here indentified with "the Process of cultural transmission and renewal." Rural Ladinos of midwestern Guatemala are, with respect to education, intermediate between tribal and urban society. Schools exist, but they have little importance. On the other hand, ceremony and myth do not play a large par in the transfer of tradition. The attention of the investigator is therefore drawn to the more elementary and universal aspects of education: the informal day-to-day situations in which tradition is communicated or modified. Such a situation is analyzed, and the educational importance of these occurrences remarked, in this Guatemalan society where schools represent regulation largely external to the culture and where important traditional ceremonials are lacking

Archaeology · Ceremony · Cultural transmission in animals · Ethnology · Geography · Mythology · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education

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