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Coast Salish concepts of power: verbal and functional categories
Tsimshian and their neighbors of the North Pacific coast • Seattle • Published In 1984 • Pages: 281-291
By: Elmendorf, William W. (William Welcome).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study discusses the religious basis of Coast Salish peoples’ concepts of local differentiation in otherwise secular aspects of life, such as success in acquiring wealth or influencing others. The author underscores the absence of such a connection between religion and power in the emic meanings of commonly-used terms related to both religious practices and social organization. The analysis suggests that earlier anthropologists wrongly regarded native terms as reliable indicators for understanding the role of cultural categories in shaping emic cognitive systems.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- General character of religion
- Animism
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnosociology
- Ethnogeography
- Glossary
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Social personality
- Accumulation of wealth
- Classes
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Southern Coast Salish
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939-1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1939-1956
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hood Canal area, Washington, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- William W. Elmendorf
- Included bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83023364
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Southern Coast Salish Indians