APPENDIX 3 

 HOUSEHOLDS IN ORDER OF WEALTH 



The following list of Panajachel Indian house- 

 holds includes all that were in the community 

 studied in 1936. The families are ordered accord- 

 ing to wealth (rich to poor) as judged by the fol- 

 lowing: 



(1) The opinions of two Indians, labeled SY and BC, 

 who are themselves found in places 49 and 58, respectively, 

 in the list. Independently they graded each of the families 

 on a scale of from 1 to 100, whereupon the households 

 could be put in order of wealth. The results are seen in 

 columns 2 and 3 of the final list, where the numbers repre- 

 sent the order of wealth (according to the two who gave 

 judgment) and not the grades given. 



(2) Their standing in the scales of the value of land 

 owned and of land controlled, as shown in columns 3 and 4. 



(3) Other indications of wealth, such as houses and stock 

 and sources of income other than agriculture. The num- 

 ber and kinds of houses, of domestic animals, and of fruit 

 trees cannot be shown in the list because so much data 

 would make it even more unwieldy than it is. 



Whenever there was doubt, I trusted the inform- 

 ants' judgment — where it was clear. Obviously, 

 neither they nor I can tell how accurate the judg- 



ments are, but clearly the extremes are well defined 

 and families are not far out of place. 



Data concerning the number of persons (men, 

 women, boys, girls, and infants) are included in 

 the list because they help to explain in many cases 

 why families are richer or poorer than their land- 

 holdings would indicate. For the same reason, 

 special occupations are noted. 



The numbers of Panajachelefio households run 

 from 1 to 132; it will be noted that the two polygy- 

 nous cases are each treated by bracketing the 

 households in spite of the fact that informants 

 judged each separately. The foreign-Indian house- 

 holds are included in the list in their places on the 

 wealth scale, but they are given intermediate 

 numbers preceded by "F." Foreign Indians or 

 foreign Indian families attached as "servants" to 

 Panajachelefio (and in one case a foreign) house- 

 holds are not numbered separately. 



The order number (column 1) is the key to the 

 numbering of Indian houses on map 3. 



Bee footnotes at end of table, p. 219. 



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