Book
Social organization and social usages of the Indians of the Creek confederacy
U.S. Govt. Print. Off. • Washington, Dc • Published In 1928 • Pages: 23-472
By: Swanton, John Reed.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is the first part of a comprehensive ethnography of the Indians of the Creek confederacy. The second part, that deals with religion and medicine will be found in document 2:Swanton. Swanton has worked with historical materials as well as directly with Creek remnants in Oklahoma. Large sections of the document are quotations from earlier writers who had direct contact with functioning traditional Creek culture. Most of the work is concerned with descriptions of Muskogee, Alabama, and Hitchiti-speaking groups. However, frequent reference is made to Chickasaw, Choctaw, Natchez, Cherokee, and other southeastern tribes. Swanton includes sections on Creek traditional history, Creek towns and town organization, law and government, kinship, and general customs. Diagrams of town squares and seating arrangements therein are furnished in all possible cases. Swanton has organized in tabular form lists of Creek towns and their associations with each other, as well as Creek clans and clan-linkages.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Literary texts
- Clans
- Public structures
- Community structure
- Offenses and sanctions
- Marriage
- Burial practices and funerals
- Warfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Creek
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- W. W. Stein; 1956; John Beierle; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1911-1912
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1700-1912
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern United States and Oklahoma
- NotesAdditional notes
- by John R. Swanton
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-472)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 28030084
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Creek Indians