Book
The 'principal people,' 1960: a study of cultural and social groups of the Eastern Cherokee
U.S. Government Printing Office • (78) • Published In 1966 • Pages: 215-325
By: Kupferer, Harriet Jane.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a study of acculturation in the community of Cherokee, North Carolina, in 1960 and a test of the utility of Thomas's (1958) four-fold typology of acculturated groups among the Eastern Cherokee. Kupferer examines a range of behaviors, values and beliefs, including living conditions and lifestyle, hygiene, medical practices, adult attitudes towards education, students' classroom behavior, characteristics of interpersonal relations, adherence to traditional beliefs and practices related to magic and sorcery, conception of self and dominant values. Kupferer finds extensive variation in all of these areas and suggests a modification of Thomas's typology that recognizes two ideal types of acculturated groups for the Eastern Cherokee: 1) a relatively unacculturated group that has maintained traditional values, beliefs and practices and which she terms 'Conservative Cherokee' and 2) an acculturated group that is subdivided by distinctions based on wealth, lifestyle and educational aspirations and which she calls 'Modern Cherokee'.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Racial identification
- Social personality
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ethos
- Ethics
- Public welfare
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cherokee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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.
- 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
- Gerald Reid ; John Beierle ; 1987
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1958-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- towns of Big Cove, Cherokee and Soco, Qualla Indian Reservation, North Carolina, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harriet Jane Kupferer
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians