Book
A summary of Yuki culture
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1944 • Pages: v, 155-244
By: Foster, George M. (George McClelland).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yuki
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- summer 1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- nineteenth century - 1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Round Valley, Mendocino County, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by George M. Foster
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 45000779
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yuki Indians