Book
Fresno Armenians (to 1919)
Coronado Press • Lawrence, Kansas • Published In 1965 • Pages:
By: Wallis, Wilson D. (Wilson Dallam), Davidian, Nectar.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a general study of Armenian culture history, focussing on the Armenian population of Fresno, California (as of 1919). Wallis discusses immigration patterns, areas of settlement in the United States, economic pursuits (e.g., fig and melon production), Armenian newspapers, education, cultural contributions to the society by Armenian artists, engineers, and scholars, religion, kinship terminology, and various other industries.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- External migration
- History and culture change
- Press
- Status, role, and prestige
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- North American Armenians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- between 1916 and 1919
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1919
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fresno, Calif., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Wilson D. Wallis ; edited, with introduction by Nectar Davidian
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Armenian Americans