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Pima and papago ecological adaptations
Handbook of North American Indians. Southwest • 10 • Published In 1983 • Pages: 161-177
By: Hackenberg, Robert A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper deals with the adaptation of the Pima and Papago Indians to their southern Arizona environment. Adaptive mechanisms are discussed in the text including information on subsistence strategies employed in the adaptive process both before and after contact, and in the twentieth century.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Cultural goals
- Climate
- Pastoral activities
- Public welfare
- Settlement patterns
- Tillage
- Water supply
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- O'odham
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2010
- 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
- 1200-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert A. Hackenberg
- Stock number: 047-000-00361-0
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tohono O'odham Indians