Abstract
The relationship between family and cargo festivals is analyzed in the context of village interaction patterns in Ahuango, an Otavaleño Indian community in northern highland Ecuador. In Ahuango, dyadic relationships of trust and continuity are established, reaffirmed, and enacted in the context of family festivals. Individuals with relatively large land‐holdings tend also to maintain more of these ties (i.e., to have larger “alliances”) than other Ahuangueños do. In the context of cargo festivals, alliances centered on more prosperous individuals act as factions. The fiesta complex is an arena in which individual interests coincide and compete. [social strategies, social networks, fiesta systems, Ecuadorian Indians, Otaveleño Indians]
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