essay
Havasupai political structure and leadership
Coasts, plains, and deserts : essays in honor of Reynold J. RuppT • Tempe, Ariz., U.s.a. • Published In 1987 • Pages: 155-171
By: Martin, John Franklin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In the forty-four years since the election of the first Havasupai Tribal Council Chairman, nineteen individuals have served in that capacity. The mean tenure is thus 2.2 years but this rather brief tenure masks further instability; among the eleven individuals who have served more than one year, five have served discontinuous terms. If we count continuous terms of office, the Havasupai have had twenty-nine over forty-four years for a mean of 1.5 years. The present paper analyzes the bases of this instability, finding them in the interactions of provisions of the Tribal Constitution with aspects of the Havasupai political process (p. 155).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Public welfare
- Deliberative councils
- Form and rules of government
- Local officials
- Community heads
- Real property
- Economic planning and development
- Ingroup antagonisms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Havasupai
- 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
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2010
- 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
- 1882-1976
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- John F. Martin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-171)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87081808
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yuman Indians