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The matrifocal family among the Mescalero: additional data
American anthropologist • 66 • Published In 1964 • Pages: 593-602
By: Boyer, Ruth MacDonald.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source contains a discussion of the concept of the matrifocal family and the degree to which the concept may be applied to the Mescalero. Most of the data presented pertain to household composition, residence patterns, and the employment patterns of males and females. Boyer extends the term matrifocal beyond its more usual meaning of a co-resident group lacking a regular male as husband-father to a co-resident group in which the husband-father role is weakly defined and fulfilled while the wife-mother dominates the household. In this sense, she argues, the Mescalero may be classified as a matrifocal society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Household
- Residence
- Labor
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mescalero Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- Ethnographer
- 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 ; 1979-1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ruth M. Boyer
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mescalero Indians