Book
Hidatsa social and ceremonial organization
U.S. Government Printing Office • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1965 • Pages: xii, 528
By: Bowers, Alfred W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This extensive reconstruction of nineteenth century Hidatsa social organization and ceremonial life—from before the final devastating smallpox epidemic until military pacification and confinement to a reservation—is based on interviews with informants born mid-century, supplemented by historical records. Featured themes include the organization of clans and villages, kinship, life cycle events, the economic activities and rituals of age- and gender-based societies, warfare, inter-tribal relations, and external trade, among others. There also is considerable information about the Mandan, with whom the Hidatsa had close ties. The text concludes with a summary of archaeological evidence for the prehistoric and protohistoric Hidatsa.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Kin relationships
- Clans
- Age stratification
- Sodalities
- Instigation of war
- External relations
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hidatsa
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2013
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1932-1933
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1836-1870
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central and western North Dakota, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alfred W. Bowers
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 490-493)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 6502849
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hidatsa Indians