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A Seri girls' puberty ceremony at Desemboque, Sonora
Kiva • 20 (4) • Published In 1955 • Pages: 8-11
By: Hinton, Thomas B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The is a first-hand account of a traditional Seri girls' puberty initiation ceremony that occurred in Desemboque, Mexico on December 30 and 31, 1953. The goal is to recount salient aspects of the ceremony as observed and recorded in this particular setting.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dance
- Spectacles
- Puberty and initiation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Seri
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Mexico
- 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 ; 2022
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1953-1954
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Desemboque, Sonora, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas B. Hinton
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 41020657
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Seri Indians