Book
Culture contact and acculturation of the southwestern Pomo
[s.n.] • [s.l.] • Published In 1955 • Pages:
By: Kennedy, Mary Jean.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Over the past one hundred and fifty years the material and ideational content of California Indian culture has been altered dramatically as the result of contact with foreign cultures, "…yet there are still identifiable social groups which consider themselves as Indian and are regarded as such by other segments of American society" (p. ii). In this dissertation Kennedy examines the Southwestern Pomo of central California as an example of an ethnic group which has maintained its cultural identity through time primarily through the "…purposive control of supernatural sanctions -- adherence to the religious cult and avoidance of organized Christian churches as proselytizing agencies for American culture" (p. 3). As a background to this study the author provides data on the aboriginal Southwestern Pomo culture (e.g., geography, material culture, economy, social organization, religion, ceremonies, etc.), then Spanish and Russian influences on the Pomo, life on the Kashia reservation, and the development of the Bole-Maru cult. The document concludes with a summary analysis of Southwestern Pomo culture change.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Ethos
- Diet
- Labor supply and employment
- Dance
- External relations
- Theory of disease
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Priesthood
- Congregations
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952-1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- nineteenth - mid twentieth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southwestern Pomo, central California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Mary Jean Kennedy
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley
- Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-181)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pomo Indians