Book
The social organization of the Tewa of New Mexico
[s.n.] • (36) • Published In 1929 • Pages: 309 , 42 plates, 8 unnumbered plates
By: Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph, written by a well-known professional anthropologist, is a study of Tewa social structure, ceremonial organization, rituals, and supernatural beings, as observed by the author in the communities of San Juan, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, and Nambé. Very detailed descriptions of rituals and ceremonies are given in this study, but there is relatively little information on the material culture of the Tewa. The appendix contains several folktales from Nambé.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- Dance
- Kinship terminology
- Clans
- Moieties
- Spirits and gods
- Sodalities
- Personal names
- Literary texts
- Mythology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tewa Pueblos
- 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
- Book
- 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 ; 1961; John Beierle; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1923-1927
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1923-1927
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tewa Pueblos, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Elsie Clews Parsons
- A glossary of frequently occurring native terms used throughout the text, may be found in category GLOSSARY. This glossary has been composed by HRAF and is not to be found in the original text.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-309)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 30005855
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tewa Indians