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A reconsideration of Havasupai land tenure
Ethnology • 7 (4) • Published In 1968 • Pages: 450-460
By: Martin, John Franklin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In 1947, Elman R Service described Havasupai land rights as being distributed among the proprietor, the family, and the community, finding that the proprietor has little more than use rights and that the family ordinarily determines the choice of heirs (p. 450). In this article Martin critiques some of Service's concepts and suggests other factors relevant to land tenure and inheritance which may also be significant. In one of his statements Martin says that 'the prevailing system of land tenure and inheritance is preferably viewed as the reflection of a multiplicity of factors -- demographic, economic, and organizational--which impinge upon the developmental cycle of the extended family. Normative principles play a role, to be sure, but largely pertain, not directly to forms of land tenure and modes of inheritance, but to quite different matters such as the definition of the prerequisites for the full participation of adult males in community affairs.' (p. 460)
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Income and demand
- Land use
- Deliberative councils
- Public welfare
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 1963-1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1936-1964
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Havasu Canyon, Northwestern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- John F. Martin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 460)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yuman Indians