Book
Culture and ethos of Kaska society
Yale University Press • (40) • Published In 1949 • Pages: 366 , 12 plates
By: Honigmann, John Joseph, Bennett, Wendell Clark.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the primary source on the contemporary culture of the Kaska Indians, an Athapaskan-speaking group living in northern British Columbia and southern Yukon Territory. The monograph is divided into two main sections, cultural material being treated extensively in the first, and ethos and ethos development in the second. There is also an appendix containing life history materials, together with Rorshach records. In another appendix, all the definitions of the 'ethos' concept in use up to the date of writing (1946) are placed in a table. The author used the Outline of Cultural Materials in the field as an adjunct to his work. Although Honigmann first visited the Kaska area in 1943, he did not begin actual field work until 1944. The author, a graduate of Yale University, was Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Congregations
- External relations
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Annual cycle
- Accumulation of wealth
- Domesticated animals
- Outbuildings
- Weapons
- Names of animals and things
- Animal transport
- Scientific method
- Hunting and trapping
- Division of labor by gender
- Woodworking
- Cordage
- Exchange transactions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kaska
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1957; Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1943-1945
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1945
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern British Columbia, southeastern Yukon Territory, and southwestern Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Wendell C. Bennett, editor
- Since the contemporary culture is, in effect, the result of acculturation, category 177 (acculturation) was marked lightly. Students interested in particular aspects of acculturation should refer to the appropriate categories.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-365)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 49009094
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kaska Indians
- Indians of North America