essay
Hopi family structure and the experience of widowhood
On their own : widows and widowhood in the American Southwest 1848-1939 • Urbana And Chicago • Published In 1988 • Pages: 42-64
By: Schlegel, Alice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses widowhood in Hopi society as it existed from the time of the first major penetration of the outside world in the 1860s to World War II. The author describes the traditional pattern and how it began to change …"as the Hopi began their transformation from a tribal society, based on subsistence horticulture and organized around corporate clans, to class society, in which sustenance came rom wage labor, social benefits, and entrepreneural activities" (p. 42). Of particular interest in this study is the changed status of the widow/widower, their relationship to their household and clan, and the degree to which they suffered economic deprivation from the loss of their respective spouses.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Secondary marriages
- Celibacy
- Household
- Family relationships
- Clans
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hopi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1999
- 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
- 1860s - 1945
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hopi pueblos, First, Second, and Third Mesas, northeastern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alice Schlegel
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86030850
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopi Indians