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Yokuts trade networks and native culture change in central and eastern California
Ethnohistory • 40 (4) • Published In 1993 • Pages: 619-640
By: Arkush, Brooke S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Arkush discusses trade among the Yokuts using ethnographic, historic, and some archaeological data. Arkush believes Yokuts traders and villages (through Yokuts villages hosting trade fairs/mouning ceremonies/feasts) introduced many elements of Spanish and Mexican material culture to other tribes east of their territory such as glass trade beads and horses. Arkush also discusses some of the ways the Yokuts managed to stay independent of the Spanish and Mexican authorities through changing their settlement practices and through guerilla warfare tactics. Arkush also describes in some detail the impact of the horse on the Yokuts. The Yokuts became known as 'Horsethief Indians' and traded, ate, and kept large herds as status symbols.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ornament
- External trade
- Instigation of war
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yokuts
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Archaeologist
- 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
- Sarah Berry ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1772-1850
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yokuts; California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Brooke S. Arkush
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 636-640)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57043343
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yokuts Indians