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Southern Valley Yokuts
Handbook of North American Indians. California • 8 • Published In 1978 • Pages: 448-461
By: Wallace, William James.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Wallace writes an overview for the Yokuts of the southern San Joaquin Valley. He describes such things as their territory, environment, material culture, social and political organization, important life cycle events, religion, and their acculturation during the Spanish, Mexican, and American periods.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- History
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Settlement patterns
- Moieties
- Magicians and diviners
- Organized ceremonial
- 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
- essay
- 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
- 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
- 8000 BP - 28 B.P (6000 B.C. - 1972 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southern Valley Yokuts; California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- William J. Wallace
- SuDoc #047-000-00347-4
- For bibliographical references see source 21:Anonymous
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yokuts Indians