book chapter
The girls' puberty ceremony at Umnak, Aleutian Islands
American anthropologist • 53 • Published In 1951 • Pages: 145-148
By: Shade, Charles I..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article repeats the description of the girls' puberty ceremony given in 17: Shade, “Ethnological Notes on the Aleuts” and presents comments and comparative data. Only Shade's comments are included in this excerpt.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Puberty and initiation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aleut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2007
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- 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
- Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1948
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Umnak Island, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles I. Shade
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 148)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts