Book
Social structure and social life of the Tlingit in Alaska
University of California Press • 26 • Published In 1967 • Pages: x, 123
By: Olson, Ronald L. (Ronald Leroy).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author's objective in this ethnography was to do a '…study of the structure and functioning of the complex social life,…' (p. V-A). The range of topics covered is broad, including political organization, clan legends and property, social classes, potlatches, feuds and warfare, religion, and historical narratives of several of the clans. The book is primarily a 'memory' ethnography of the Tlingit, based on interviews with old people who could remember back to the period before 1880 or 1890, before intensive White contact. Consequently the book consists mainly of legends, tales, and the historical and semi-historical narratives of the elders as related to Olsen, who was an adopted member of the Ganaxtedi Clan of the Raven moiety.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Gift giving
- Literary texts
- Accumulation of wealth
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Moieties
- Revelation and divination
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tlingit
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; Martin Malone ; 1974
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1933-1954
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1880-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by R. L. Olsen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 123)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68002894
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tlingit Indians