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Social life of the Hidatsa
Notes on the social organization and customs of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Crow Indians • 21 • Published In 1924 • Pages: 17-52
By: Lowie, Robert Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document outlines aspects of traditional Hidatsa social life, principally through examination of kin groups and relationships, kinship terminology, and marriage. Additional topics given brief coverage include government, naming, and burial.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Family relationships
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Clans
- 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
- essay
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1920
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1845-1920
- 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
- Robert Lowie
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 24017886
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hidatsa Indians