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Makah marriage patterns and population stability
Akten des 34 Internationalen Amerikanistenkongresses [Proceedings of the 34th International Congress of Americanists • Horn-Wien • Published In 1962 • Pages: 538-545
By: Gunther, Erna.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper presents a study of the changing patterns of marriage among the Makah Indians over a period of one hundred years (1860-1960), partly as a result of European-Indian contacts, and partly as inherent socio-cultural changes evolving from within the society itself. This study is the result of the author's own field work among the Makah begun in 1934, and is further supplemented by various documents--census data, employment records, etc. There are abundant data in this work on marriage regulations within Makah society, and also on Indian-White marriages and their effect on the people as a whole. Some population statistics will be found at the end of this document.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Regulation of marriage
- Ethnic stratification
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- article
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1964: John Beierle; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1860-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Makah Indians, Cape Flattery, Washington State, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Erna Gunther
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 545)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nootka Indians
- Nuu-chah-nulth Indians