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African political models in the American Southwest: Hopi as an internal frontier society
American anthropologist • 94 (2) • Published In 1992 • Pages: 376-397
By: Schlegel, Alice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
According to Schlegel "most ethnological and archeological analyses of Pueblo social organization derive its particular character from the need to adopt to an arid environment. This article challenges an ecological interprettion (without dismissing ecological constraints), finding similarities between the organization of one Pueblo society, the Hopi, and features of what Kopyoff calls 'internal frontier societies' in Africa. Hopi political and ceremonial organization is viewed as responding to 'internal frontier' migration" (p. 376).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Comparative evidence
- Status, role, and prestige
- Sodalities
- Lineages
- Clans
- Phratries
- 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
- early - mid nineteenth century
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hopi pueblos, Second and Third Mesas, northeastern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alice Schlegel
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-397)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopi Indians