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San Juan Pueblo
Handbook of North American Indians. Southwest • 9 • Published In 1979 • Pages: 278-295
By: Ortiz, Alfonso.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
San Juan is the largest and northermost of the six Tewa-speaking pueblos. This article presents a brief culture summary of San Juan and its people from approximately 1541, at the time of first European-Indian contact, to 1977. This study focuses on the geography of the region, history and prehistory, the classification of human society and the physical world, social and political organization, education and health, and the sociocultural situation as it existed in San Juan in the 1970s.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Sociocultural trends
- Public welfare
- Public assistance
- Ethnosociology
- Ethnogeography
- Organized ceremonial
- Moieties
- Education system
- 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
- 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
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1541-1977
- 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
- Stock number: 047-000-00361-0
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tewa Indians