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The socio-psychological significance of death among the Pomo Indians
American imago • 1 • Published In 1940 • Pages: 1-11
By: Aginsky, Bernard W. (Bernard Willard).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article deals with the concept of death among the Pomo, primarily as it manifests itself as the result of the direct or sometimes indirect retaliation either from the supernaturals as a penalty for the violation of a taboo or coming into physical contact with them, or as a result of sorcery worked upon by one's enemies. The author concludes that the great number of anxieties and anxiety producing situations in which the Pomo were involved, were instrumental in inducing psychotic states akin to what we term suicide. This state, unless treated by psycho-magical/medical therapy as practiced by Pomo curing doctors, often led to death of the individual.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Drives and emotions
- Ethos
- Theory of disease
- Sorcery
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Life and death
- Suicide
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- 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
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934-1935
- 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)
- northern California , United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- B. W. Aginsky
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 41002485
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pomo Indians