Book
The Curtain within: Haida social and mythical discourse
University of British Columbia Press • Vancouver • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Boelscher, Marianne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author examines the fluidity and flexibility of Haida social organization in a post-structural critique of the structural functionalist paradigm that has framed Haida ethnography to date. Based on original fieldwork, and with frequent reference to early studies among the Masset Haida by Swanton and Murdock, topics covered include social values, cosmology, supernatural forces, symbolic property, and feasting as a set of practices and beliefs in which individuals, houses and lineages vie for recognition and prestige.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Incorporeal property
- Visual arts
- Personal names
- Naming
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Visiting and hospitality
- Regulation of marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Lineages
- Moieties
- Sorcery
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnopsychology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Haida
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2017
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Masset, Graham Island, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Marianne Boelscher
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89165938
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Haida Indians--Kinship
- Haida Indians--Social life and customs
- Haida Gwaii (B.C.)--Social life and customs