Book
A summary of Yuki culture
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1944 • Pages: v, 155-244
By: Foster, George McClelland.
Abstract
This study is a detailed ethnographic description of aboriginal Yaki culture based on the memories of native informants who were living at the time of the author's field work in 1937. Major topics discussed in this work are: the economy; material culture; socio-political organization; life cycle events; leisure time activities (e.g., games, gambling, etc.); religion and the supernatural; shamanism and curing; and modern (ca. 1937) religious developments -- the Ghost Dance and the Pentecostal Movement. Appendix I of this work presents comparable ethnographic data on the Huchnom, a subgroup of the Yaki.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field Date
- summer 1937
- Coverage Date
- nineteenth century - 1937
- Coverage Place
- Round Valley, Mendocino County, California, United States
- Notes
- by George M. Foster
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244)
- LCCN
- a 45000779
- LCSH
- Yuki Indians