essay
Keresan Pueblo law
Law in culture and society • Chicago • Published In 1969 • Pages: 92-116, 419-438
By: Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Hoebel writes about Keresan law. Zia are one of several Keresan pueblos in western New Mexico, including Cochiti, Santo Domingo, and San Felipe on the Rio Grande; Acoma and Laghuna, west of Albuquerque; and Santa Ana and Sia (Zia) on the Jemez River north of Albuquerque. Most of the research for this article was done in the pueblos of Zia (Sia) and Santa Ana. There is no private law. Clans and lineages have no role in the legal process. All cases are brought before the governor and a council comprised of the heads of secret societies. The basic legal principle of the pueblo is that all members are obligated to participate in activities that maintain the community, such as collective hunts, cleaning and repairing irrigation ditches, cultivating the governor's field, dancing at the fiesta, and sweeping the village plaza. Other crimes are adultery and witchcraft. Sanctions can be quite severe and involve hanging violators up by their hands, whippings, banishment, and in the past, execution.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External relations
- Sanctions
- Judicial authority
- Trial procedure
- Cosmology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zia Pueblo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1943-1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1889
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- E. Adamson Hoebel
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-438)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68008157
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sia Indians