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Henry Selby's ethnographic study of the Zapotec Indians of a small community in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, reveals that the notion of the social basis of deviance is implicit in Zapotec thinking. Zapotecs recognize that crime and deviance arise out of society, and their methods of reducing criminal behavior are based on social networks and their dynamics. Professor Selby's consideration of witchcraft and deviant sexual behavior among the Zapotecs demonstrates how a deeper understanding of the rules upon which their society is based is necessary to an understanding of Zapotec ideas of deviance. The intent of this study is to show how in a contemporary traditional community the logic of the interactionist approach to the understanding of deviance has been borne out in detail. The transcultural comparisons, in many instances, can lead us to reexamine our own ideas about law and order. ** General Cultural & Social Social Science Sociology Anthropology Foreword 8 Preface 14 1. The Study of Deviance 22 2. Values and Social Groups in the Community 37 3. Deviance and the Social Structure 59 4. Ideologies and the Definition of Sexual Deviance 86 5. Witchcraft in the Community 111 6. Witc

Author

Selby, Henry A.;

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9781477302958

Subjects

Sociology, History, Anthropology