essay
A Perilous rule: the law of international homicide
Cherokee Indian nation :a troubled history • Knoxville • Published In 1979 • Pages: 33-45
By: Reid, John Phillip.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The primary focus of this study is on Cherokee law in relationship to homicide as it existed in the seventeenth century.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ethnic stratification
- External relations
- Legal norms
- Offenses against life
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Lawyer
- 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
- Delores Walters ; 1988: John Beierle ; 2006
- 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
- 1600-1675
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern states and Oklahoma, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- John Philip Reid
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-45)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78013222
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians