Book
Kinship system of the Seminole
Field Museum of Natural History • 33 (2) • Published In 1942 • Pages: 31-113
By: Spoehr, Alexander.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper, based on five months of field work during the autumn of 1938 and the summer of 1939, is an attempt to reconstruct Oklahoma Seminole kinship as it existed during the days of the Seminole Nation before the allotment of Indian lands (1903), and to show to what extent changes have taken place under new social and environmental conditions (including Indian-White contacts). Chapter II of this work, which makes up the major portion of this source, presents historical background information on the character of the white contact agents which affected the Oklahoma Seminole, in addition to detailed data on the kinship system itself (e. g., terminology, behavior,and relations to social customs). Chapter III compares the Florida and Oklahoma Seminole in terms of social change, particularly in reference to the kinship system, while Chapter IV describes the contemporary Oklahoma Seminole.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Avuncular and nepotic relatives
- Clans
- Phratries
- Moieties
- Sociocultural trends
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Seminole
- 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.
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1938-1939
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- nineteenth century -1903
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Oklahoma, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Alexander Spoehr
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-112)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 42018453
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Seminole Indians