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Plains Indian law in development: the Comanche

Delinquency, crime, and social processNew YorkPublished In 1969 • Pages: 67-78

By: Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson).

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a brief description of Comanche legal customs regarding adultery and wife-stealing, murder, and sorcery. The document appears to be memory ethnography and is based on the collection of case histories (p. 71).
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Legal norms
Religious practices
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Comanche
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
Plains and Plateau
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.
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
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Marlene Martin ; Martin Malone ; 1978-1979
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1933
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1933-1969
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
southwestern United States
NotesAdditional notes
Edward Adamson Hoebel
Includes bibliographical references
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
69014982
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Comanche Indians