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Zuni social and political organization
Handbook of North American Indians. Southwest • 9 • Published In 1979 • Pages: 482-491
By: Ladd, Edmund J., Ortiz, Alfonso.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a concise summary of Zuni social and political organization centering around the period of 1890 to 1974. The descriptive data in this study include information on the socio-religious organization, kinship terminology, religious organization, the clan system, and the political system (both traditional and that existing in the 1970s).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kinship terminology
- Clans
- Priesthood
- Community councils
- Community heads
- Elections
- Sodalities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zuni
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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.
- Indigenous Person
- 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; 2007
- 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
- 1890-1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edmund J. Ladd
- Stock number: 047-000-00361-0; For bibliographical references see document 34: [edited by Alfonzo Ortiz]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zuni Indians