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The Giveaway ceremony of Blackfoot and Plains Cree
Plains anthropologist • 25 (87) • Published In 1980 • Pages: 17-26
By: Kehoe, Alice Beck.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper describes in detail the content of contemporary Indian 'giveaway' ceremonies, at which the status and achievements of various sorts of persons are publicly recognized. Kehoe argues that while current giveaways have their origin in an earlier (though post-contact) tradition, their function today is radically different from that of the past. Employing a semiotic/communications theory approach to the data, Kehoe sees the ceremonies primarily as 'signaling' Indian ethnic identity within the larger, pluralistic society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gift giving
- Status, role, and prestige
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Blackfoot
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- 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
- M. A. Marcus ; J. Beierle ; 1983
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1972-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Blackfeet Indian Reservation, northwestern Montana, United States; Blood Reserve, southwestern Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Alice B. Kehoe
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 26)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 66038259
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians