Book
Pomo folkways
University of California Press • 19 (2) • Published In 1926 • Pages: 149-404 , plates
By: Loeb, Edwin M. (Edwin Meyer).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document incorporates the efforts of five graduate students who in the winter of 1921, under the direction of A. L. Kroeber, obtained from an Eastern Pomo informant much valuable information on Pomo shamanism and the Kuksu cult, material culture, calendar and counting system, sociology and economic life. This information is further supplemented by Loeb through his own fieldwork in the Pomo area, and from material obtained through the cooperation of five additional informants. In general, this source is divided into three primary chapters: Economic Life; Social Organization and Ceremonies; and Religion. Information contained within these chapters gives a general picture of Pomo life-ways, and covers such things as: clothing and adornment; dwellings; foods; occupations; transportation and trade; property; warfare; games; birth; puberty; marriage, and death; crimes and punishment; concepts of the world; doctors and poisoners, and a very complete description of various religious ceremonies, including the modern Ghost Dance.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Normal garb
- Dwellings
- Real property
- Exchange transactions
- Occupational specialization
- Travel
- Gambling
- Athletic sports
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Community heads
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Cult of the dead
- Spirits and gods
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pomo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1924-1925
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Eastern Pomo: northern California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Edwin M. Loeb …
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-404) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 26000475
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pomo Indians