Competition, Cooperation, and the Folk Society

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ID2234260
AuthorsDon E Dumond (corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume26
Issue3
Pages261-286
Publication date1970-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouthwestern Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-4801 • E-ISSN: 2328-1839
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/soutjanth.26.3.3629381
OpenAlexW2330504548
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

Critiques based on Redfield's analysis of peasant communities imply that societies with the characteristics of his ideal folk society do not exist. This paper argues that Tusik, the most isolated of the communities in Redfield's multi-community study in Yucatan, is a folk society in Redfield's sense and compares Tusik with Chan Kom, a peasant village in the same study. Although differences between them in internal social cohesion cannot be adequately explained by the degree of relative isolation from the city, as Redfield argued, they can be so explained by the focus of aggressive competition, which can in turn be related to aspects of social organization. It is concluded that societies with the characteristics of Redfield's folk society are primitive, unstratified, segmentary societies, differing as a class from stratified societies, of which peasants are a part

Cohesion (chemistry · Competition (biology) · Peasant · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law

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