book chapter

Delaware

Handbook of North American Indians. Northeast15Published In 1978 • Pages: 213-239

By: Goddard, Ives.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article, from the Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15, is a comprehensive survey of Delaware ethnography from the seventeenth century to the 1970s. The autor describes the westward movement of the Delaware from the east coast of the United States through the present states of Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and to Ontario, Canada. The summary is very compactly written and covers a wide range of topics such as political organization, subsistence, technology, clothing and adornment, structures, life cycle events, religion, warfare, and culture contacts with other societies. This document provides an excellent general background for a more intensive study of Delaware ethnography.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Identification
Internal migration
Acculturation and culture contact
Sociocultural trends
Normal garb
External trade
Lineages
Phratries
External relations
Organized ceremonial
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 chapter
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
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
John Beierle; 2002
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
seventeenth century-1970s
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
United States; Canada
NotesAdditional notes
Ives Goddard
Stock number: 047-000-00351-2
Bibliographical references in document 21: Anonymous
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
77017162
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Delaware Indians