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Strategies of Adaptive Mobility in the Colombian‐Ecuadorian Littoral1

WHITTEN, NORMAN E.·1969·American Anthropologist
DOI 10.1525/aa.1969.71.2.02a00030
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A stratification model groups families in a hierarchal arrangement according to a set of variables. Such a model is convenient but is generally not productive in providing explanations of variations in social organization within the lower stratum of a complex socioeconomic system. A model of a successful social mobility sequence supplements a stratification model by allowing investigators to focus on complementary groupings at the local level. In the Pacific lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador, peasants, proletariat, and local middle‐class entrepreneurs are bound by the strategies people adopt in a four‐phase sequence of successful mobility. The sequence, viewed as a developmental cycle, is part of a structure in which peasant organization transforms to proletariat organization and successful proletariat organization evolves into the activities of the local entrepreneurs. The four‐phase sequence itself is part of a larger sociopolitical system manipulated by the local elite who make up a dispersed ambilineal ramage linked to community economics and politics through series of affinal and attenuated affinal bonds.

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Authors
WHITTEN, N. E.
Venue
American Anthropologist
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1969-04
Volume
71
Issue
2
Pages
228-242
ISSN
  • 0002-7294 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-1433
DOI
10.1525/aa.1969.71.2.02a00030
OpenAlex
W2062199875
Cited by
24
References
40
Citations by year
2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1
FWCI
121.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 14820 d)
Locations
American Anthropologist (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Indigenous Studies in Latin America
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Social Sciences › Demography › History and Politics in Latin America
Keywords
adaptive mobility, social mobility, stratification, peasant organizations, working class, local entrepreneurs, middle class, developmental cycle, local elites, community economy, community politics, Pacific lowlands

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