Book
The changing culture of an Indian tribe
Columbia University Press • New York • Published In 1932 • Pages:
By: Mead, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a community-type study of the Omaha Indian Reservation. The author has given the pseudonym 'Antler Tribe' to the Omaha in order to preserve anonymity. The book is the result of five months' field work on the reservation. Material on aboriginal culture has been taken from the standard sources to furnish base-lines for the examination of changes in economy, government, family, religion, child training, and sex patterns. Throughout the book the author gives emphasis to changes in the position of women in Omaha society. Household organization and female delinquincy are dealt with tabularly. Life-history material is used illustratively in the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Production and supply
- Housing
- Normal garb
- Missions
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Annual cycle
- External relations
- Tillage
- Income and demand
- Standard of living
- Education system
- Kin relationships
- Visiting and hospitality
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Residence
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Real property
- Gift giving
- Status, role, and prestige
- Cultural identity and pride
- Tribe and nation
- Occupational specialization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Omaha
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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.
- 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
- W. W. Stein ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1930
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890-1931
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Omaha Indians in USA
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret Mead ; foreword by Clark Wissler
- Since the book contains considerable material on acculturation, category 177 in the file has been organized decimally to correspond with the OCM categories. The author's introduction and theoretical orientation, pp. 3-15, appear in category 116 only.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Omaha Indians
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--Social conditions
- Acculturation--Great Plains
- Indian women--Great Plains