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Note on Western Apache religious and social organization
American anthropologist • 61 • Published In 1959 • Pages: 99-102
By: Kaut, Charles R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
As the title implies, this article contains a few bits of disparate information on Western Apache religious practices and social organization. Included are notes about: the role of clans in curing ceremonies; Apache funeral practices in relation to ideas about the soul; and, the number of divisions in the phratry system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Clans
- Phratries
- Death
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Western Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1953-1954
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cibecue Apache, Fort Apache Indian Reservation, east central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles R.Kaut
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 102)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Apache Indians