Book
Pomo folkways
University of California Press • 19 (2) • Published In 1926 • Pages: 149-404 , plates
By: Loeb, Edwin Meyer.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1960
- Field Date
- 1924-1925
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Eastern Pomo: northern California, United States
- Notes
- by Edwin M. Loeb …
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-404) and index
- LCCN
- a 26000475
- LCSH
- Pomo Indians