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Biculturation of Mesquakie teenage boys
American anthropologist • 62 • Published In 1960 • Pages: 217-235
By: Polgar, Steven.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of teenage boys in Tama is based on five months of fieldwork in the summers of 1952-1953. It contains descriptions of adolescent activities and discussions of the different characteristics of several cliques. Furthermore, there is some information on Fox child-rearing practices and the childhood experiences of the teenagers. Polgar concludes that the Fox teenagers underwent a process of "biculturation," meaning that they were at the same time being socialized into both Indian and Euro-America culture. Behavioral variability among the teenagers reflects individual choices between the alternatives learned in this process.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Adolescent activities
- Childhood activities
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Social personality
- Social relationships and groups
- Sociocultural trends
- Education system
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- 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
- article
- 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
- Eleanor Swanson ; Marlene Martin ; 1976-1977
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- summers of 1952, 1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1952-1953
- 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
- Steven Polgar
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-235)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indian boys--Iowa
- Fox Indians--Psychology