Book
Familia: immigration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1987 • Pages:
By: Alvarez, Robert R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is a social history about a group of pioneer families that migrated north from southern Baja, California and settled along the United States - Mexico border. Many of these families have direct kinship ties to the author. Alvaraez reconstructs the history that brought these migrants to the border area and attempts to identify the sociocultural patterns involved in their migration and adaptation to a new cultural environment. The author describes in detail complex geographical, political, and economic factors concerned with the migrations, and the development of networks associated with the interrelationships of families through friendships, marriages, and COMPADRAZGO relations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Social relationships and groups
- Kin relationships
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- September 1975-January 1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800s - 1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Diego, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert R. Alvarez, Jr.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85023217
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans