Book
The Tewa world: space, time, being, and becoming in a Pueblo society
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 1969 • Pages:
By: Ortiz, Alfonso.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph presents an account of the Tewa world view and the role of the dual organization in a functioning society. In this study Ortiz describes some of the major issues on dual orgnization as discussed by Lévi-Strauss and Maybury-Lewis, and where appropriate, critiques their individual approaches to the problem. Of particular interest in this work is the relationship of Tewa mythology to their world view, and the classification of all human and spiritual existence into a hierarchy of six categories, three human and three spiritual. The human categories constitute the Winter and Summer moieties, while the beings of the three spiritual categories together represent symbolic counterparts of the moieties. The integration of these elements into a study of Tewa ethnography constitutes the major portion of this document
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Cosmology
- Moieties
- Ceremonial during infancy and childhood
- Puberty and initiation
- Community heads
- Local officials
- Culture summary
- 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.
- Social Anthropologist
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1630-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alfonso Ortiz
- A revision of the author's thesis, University of Chicago
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72094079
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tewa Indians
- San Juan Pueblo (N.M.)