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The Aleut social system: 1750 to 1810, from early historical sources
Ethnohistory in southwestern Alaska and the southern Yukon; method and content [by] Robert E. Ackerman and others • Lexington • Published In 1970 • Pages: 139-301
By: Lantis, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Lantis bases this ethnohistory of Aleutian society and culture on historical records of explorers, travelers, traders, naval officers, naturalists, physicians, and missionaries from Russia, Germany, and England. The major sources are those of the missionary Veniaminov (1825-1834) and the explorers Krenitzin and Levashev (1764-1771). She refers to the archeology and ethnography of the 19th and 20th centuries, and her own field work to verify the earlier historical accounts. Much of the early record focuses on material culture, however, Lantis's interest is the Aleut social system. The topics she covers include home life, bathing, hospitality, division of labor, birth, marriage, death, kinship, social structure, political authority, warfare, and trade. In the first part of the book, she reviews all the historical sources.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical and archival research
- Population
- Composition of population
- Marriage
- Community heads
- Informal in-group justice
- External relations
- Warfare
- Burial practices and funerals
- 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
- essay
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1933-1934
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1750-1850
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret Lantis
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75111513
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts