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Caste in a Peasant Society
By (Author) Melvin Marvin Tumin
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Anthropology
305.5122
Hardback
316
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
An important contribution to our cumulative knowledge of castes, based on a case study of the pueblo of San Luis Jilotepeque, about ninety miles from Guatemala City in Central America. "Much of the fascination of the book derives from the intrinsic interest of the material itself its exotic locale, and its broader significance for other parts of La