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The Fox of Iowa
Acculturation in seven American Indian tribes • Gloucester, Mass. • Published In 1963 • Pages: 259-332
By: Joffe, Natalie Frankel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a chapter from a book on acculturation. It compares the aboriginal, contact and post-contact conditions of the Fox in a number of areas, including material culture and subsistence, social and political organization, religion, and relations with other Indian and Euro-American groups. It also discusses warfare, history, the acculturation process, the community, schools, leisure time activities, and arts and crafts. Joffe concludes that the Fox tribe's strong in-group feeling and solidarity are largely responsible for their current life-style and ability to mutually coexist with Euro-American neighbors while maintaining their own traditions. Besides Euro-American technology, the Fox have had little interest in Euro-American institutions, and their traditional religion and social organization have persisted.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Gift giving
- Adoption
- Burial practices and funerals
- Clans
- Sacred objects and places
- Public welfare
- External relations
- Sorcery
- Congregations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Fox
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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.
- 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
- Martin Malone ; 1977
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1670-1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tama County, Iowa, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Natalie F. Joffe
- Reprint of 1940 edition (published by American Anthropological Association). Preface by Ralph Linton
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 40003756
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fox Indians--Iowa