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Law of the Yurok Indians
Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale degli Americanisti, Roma, Settembre 1926 • II • Published In 1928 • Pages: 511-516
By: Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief account, by a leading American anthropologist, sets forth the principles of Yurok law with brief explanations of some of them. Included are descriptions of the wegô or mediators who adjudicate cases. The ramifications of the sanctions for the taking of life are discussed. Bibliographic references are contained in footnotes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Legal norms
- Liability
- Residence
- Judicial authority
- Agency
- Mode of marriage
- Offenses against life
- Status, role, and prestige
- Ethnopsychology
- Legal and judicial personnel
- Medium of exchange
- Inheritance
- Property system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yurok
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1910
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1926
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yurok Indians, USA
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. L. Kroeber
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yurok Indians