Symbolic Sibling Rivalry in a Guatemalan Indian Village

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American AnthropologistVolume 52, Issue 2 p. 205-218 Free Access SYMBOLIC SIBLING RIVALRY IN A GUATEMALAN INDIAN VILLAGE1 BENJAMIN D. PAUL, BENJAMIN D. PAUL Harvard University Cambridge, MassachusettsSearch for more papers by this author BENJAMIN D. PAUL, BENJAMIN D. PAUL Harvard University Cambridge, MassachusettsSearch for more papers by this author First published: April‐June 1950 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1950.52.2.02a00050Citations: 6 1 The writer obtained material for this paper in the course of making a social anthropological study of San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala, in 1941 as a traveling fellow of the Social Science Research Council. Preparation of this report was facilitated by the Laboratory of Social Relations, Harvard University. The author is grateful to both these institutions for their support and is indebted to D. F. Aberle, C. Kluckhohn, M. Mead, D. Schneider, M. B. Smith, S. Tax, and E. Z. Vogt for reading the original draft and making valuable comments. AboutReferencesRelatedInformationPDFPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessClose modalShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL BIBLIOGRAPHY Eggan, Dorothy, 1949, The Significance of Dreams for Anthropological Research, American Anthropologist, n.s. Vol. 51, pp. 177– 198. Gesell, Arnold, et al., 1940, The First Five Years of Life, New York, Harper & Bros. Gillin, John, 1947, Moche, A Peruvian Coastal Community, Smithsonian Institution, Institute of Social Anthropology, Pub. 3, U. S. Printing Office. Henry, Jules and Zunia, 1944, Doll Play of Pilagá Indian Children, Research Monographs No. 4, American Orthopsychiatric Association, New York. Henry, William E., 1937, The Thematic Apperception Technique in the Study of Culture-Personality Relations, Genetic Psychology Monographs, Vol. 35, Provincetown. Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1944, Navaho Witchcraft, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 22, No. 3, Cambridge, Mass. Levy, David M., 1939, Sibling Rivalry Studies in Children of Primitive Groups, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. 9, pp. 205– 214. Mead, Margaret, 1947, Age Patterning in Personality Development, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. 17, pp. 231– 240. Redfield, Robert and Margaret P., 1940, Disease and Its Treatment in Dzitas, Yucatan, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication 523, pp. 49– 81. Tax, Sol, 1937, The Municipios of the Midwestern Highlands of Guatemala, American Anthropologist, n.s. Vol. 39, pp. 423– 447. Tax, Sol, 1941, World View and Social Relations in Guatemala, American Anthropologist, n.s. Vol. 43, pp. 27– 42. Villa Rojas, Alfonso, 1947, Kinship and Nagualism in a Tzeltal Community, Southeastern Mexico, American Anthropologist, n.s. Vol. 49, pp. 578– 587. Citing Literature Volume52, Issue2April‐June 1950Pages 205-218 ReferencesRelatedInformation Recommendedincest, effigy hanging, and biculturation in a West Indian villageHYMIE RUBENSTEIN, American EthnologistFactionalism in a Haryana VillageJ. S. YADAVA, American AnthropologistRethinking American Indian and Non‐Indian Relations in the United States and Exploring Tribal Sovereignty: Perspectives from Indian Country and from Inside the Bureau of Indian AffairsValerie Lambert, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology ReviewSymbolic Types: A Ritual of ImpurityMina Meir-Dviri, Anthropology of ConsciousnessHindu nationalism, Untouchable reform, and the ritual production of a South Indian villageDiane P. Mines, American Ethnologist