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An ethnographic sketch of Old Harbor, Kodiak: an Eskimo village
Arctic anthropology • 6 (2) • Published In 1970 • Pages: 29-42
By: Befu, Harumi.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a brief ethnographic sketch of the village of Old Harbor, Kodiak based on less than one month of fieldwork in 1960. The author admits that the data are scanty but since the community was destroyed in 1964 by an earthquake, these are the only ethnographic data available on the village before the earthquake. Befu covers most aspects of life in Old Harbor. Researchers are warned that Befu has a very peculiar concept of what constitutes religion. He says that the Russian Orthodox Church has supplanted the native religion. The only remnants of native 'religion,' according to Befu, are childbirth and menstrual customs (p. 38).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- Internal migration
- Cultural identity and pride
- Marine industries
- Income and demand
- Retail businesses
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Alutiiq
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1890-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Village of Old Harbor, Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harumi Befu
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 78000711
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koniagmiut Eskimos