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Fathers, daughters, and kachina dolls
European review of Native American studies • 3 (1) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 7-10
By: Schlegel, Alice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study Schlegel explores the symbolic significance of the gift of a kachina doll from "father" to daughter in Hopi society. The term "father" as used here, refers not only to biological parenthood, but also as a reference to clan brothers of the biological father, to the sponsor of an initiate into a ceremonial society, to the husband of a female ceremonial mother, to a village chief, and, collectively to the men who sit together as advisers to the chief (p. 8). According to the author "…the total meaning of the kachina doll is embedded in all of Hopi principles of kinship and the proper relations between kin, and in the Hopi view of the nature of the world and the parts that people and supernaturals beings play in it" (p. 9).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gift giving
- Games
- Gender status
- Family relationships
- Artificial kin relationships
- Clans
- Life and death
- Cosmology
- Gender roles and issues
- 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
- 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
- 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
- not specified
- 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 (p. 10)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf93092504
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopi Indians