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The Mesoamerican civil-religious hierarchy, variously known as the cargo, fiesta, or. mayordomia system, needs little introduction to most anthropologists and ethnohistorians. Variants of the system have been described by ethnographers for many highland Indian.
Traditional Maya religion, though also representing a belief system, is often referred to as costumbre, the 'custom' or habitual religious practice, in contradistinction to orthodox Roman Catholic ritual.
Zinacantan is a Tzotzil-speaking, Maya community of about 11,500 people (1970 census) in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Vogt (1969, 1970) provides general descriptions, and Cancian (1965) discusses the cargo system in detail. In Zinacantan a man's community-wide reputation is established in large part through service in the religious cargo ...
Andrew P. Vayda, Economics and Prestige in a Maya Community: The Religious Cargo System in Zinacantan, by Frank Cancian, Political Science Quarterly, Volume 82, Issue 4, December 1967, Pages 652–654, https://doi.org/10.2307/2148100
4 maj 2020 · We argue that the Maya cargo system constitutes a special case of the broader category of competitive feasting systems found among many ranked societies throughout the world, and that the ...
Mesoamerica: the cargo system of the Maya. Hayden also examines the following examples of Old World secret societies. Oceania : the Suque Society and the Nimangki Society of the New Hebrides and the Ganekhe Cult among the Dani of New Guinea.
Economics and Prestige in a Maya Community: The Religious Cargo System in Zinacantán. Frank Cancian. Stanford University Press, 1965 - Social Science - 238 pages. References to this book.
