Book
The Havasupai woman
University of Utah Press • (38) • Published In 1959 • Pages: viii, 170
By: Smithson, Carma Lee.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document, which was first submitted as an M. A. thesis to the Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, was the outcome of four field trips made over a total period of five months during which the author lived among the Havasupai people. This work gives the reader a general picture of Havasupai life both as it exists today, after considerable acculturation, and as it existed in the past prior to European contacts. Much emphasis in the paper is placed on the position of the Havasupai woman in the society. The data presented herein was obtained primarily from nine informants, three men and six women, ranging in age from 31 to 86 years of age. Frequent references to the works of other ethnographers who have studied the Havasupai in the past are made throughout the document, and many direct quotations are presented primarily from the studies of Leslie Spier.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Geography
- General character of religion
- Infancy and childhood
- Transmission of skills
- Marriage
- Conception
- Division of labor by gender
- Community heads
- Local officials
- Deliberative councils
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Havasupai
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1960; John Beierle; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1958
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Havasupai, Cataract Canyon Region, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Carma Lee Smithson
- Thesis (M.A.)-University of Utah, Salt Lake, 1959
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-170)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59063167
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yuman Indians