Book
The culture and acculturation of the Delaware Indians
University of Michigan • (10) • Published In 1956 • Pages: 141
By: Newcomb, William Wilmon.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, by a professional anthropologist, is the most thorough survey of Delaware literature available. While the author spent two summers among the modern Delaware, and uses some of the material gathered to show how the culture has changed, most of the material in the book has been gathered from the literature from contact time onward. The author describes the development of Delaware culture from a number of autonomous groups, and reconstructs the culture under the following headings: technology, economics, material culture, life cycle, kin groups, social control, war, religion and magic, and folklore. In addition to this balanced description, the last third of the work deals with the historical changes which occurred in Delaware culture as a result of contact with the whites, and the extent to which acculturation occurred at various time periods up to the present.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Hunting and trapping
- Tillage
- Kinship terminology
- Lineages
- Clans
- Community heads
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Spirits and gods
- Organized ceremonial
- Socialization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Delaware
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- James R. Leary ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1952
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1400 - 1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Pennsylvania, southeastern New York, northern New Jersey, Oklahoma, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by William W. Newcomb, Jr.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-141)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 56009808
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Delaware Indians