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Plains Indian law in development: the Comanche
Delinquency, crime, and social process • New York • Published 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