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Concepts of nature and power: environmental ethics of the Northern Ute
Environmental review • 9 (2) • Published In 1985 • Pages: 150-170
By: Romeo, Stephanie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses traditional Ute beliefs relating to water, land and other aspects of nature including wind, mountains, plants and wildlife. It shows that Ute ideology about the environment is in congruity with their religion which attributes nature with supernatural powers which could be acquired by religious practioners.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnogeography
- General character of religion
- Cosmology
- Environmental quality
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ute
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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.
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982-1983
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1840-1983
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Utah and Colorado, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Stephanie Romeo
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78640718
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ute Indians