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Foothill Yokuts
Handbook of North American Indians. California • 8 • Published In 1978 • Pages: 471-484
By: Spier, Robert F. G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Spier writes an overview of the Foothill Yokuts of the Sierra Nevada foothills in Califonia. He describes their territory, environment, subsistence practices, technology, structures, settlement patterns, clothing, life cycle events, social and political organization, religion (especially the Mourning Ceremony and shamans), and their life in the twentieth century up to approximately 1970.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural participation
- Mats and basketry
- Outbuildings
- Settlement patterns
- Utensils
- Wages and salaries
- Moieties
- Community heads
- Mourning
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Foothill Yokuts; California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert F. G. Spier
- SuDoc no: 047-000-00347-4
- For bibliographical references see source 21:Anonymous
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yokuts Indians