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Adoption practices of the Blood Indians of Alberta, Canada
Plains anthropologist • 19 (63) • Published In 1974 • Pages: 25-33
By: Lismer, Marjorie, Goldfrank, Esther Schiff.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article provides an extensive analysis of several distinct types of adoption practices among the Blood Indians. In the course of describing these practices, Lismer contributes insights into Blackfoot notions of kin and family relationships which suggest that the exchange of children among households is a normative rather than unusual procedure.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Adoption
- Child care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Blackfoot
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus ; J. Simpson ; 1983
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Blood Reserve, southern Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Marjorie Lismer (With an introductory note by Esther G. Goldfrank)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 33)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 66038259
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians