essay
Male and female in Hopi thought and action
Sexual stratification • New York • Published In 1977 • Pages: 245-269
By: Schlegel, Alice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper examines some of the assumptions that have been made regarding female reproduction, separation of the sexes, and the position of women in Hopi society (p. 245). The document discusses "…the separation of activity between the domestic organization of the lineage and household under the control of a female head, and the religious and political organization of the village, under the control of male community leaders" (p. 246). Also described in the text is the position of the clan midway between household and community, in which authority is shared between a brother and sister pair, the concept of sexual interdependence between males and females, and principles of maleness and femaleness in Hopi ideology.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Sodalities
- Household
- Family relationships
- Avuncular and nepotic relatives
- 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
- late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hopi pueblos, Third Mesa, northeastern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alice Schlegel
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77002742
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopi Indians