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The mechanics of kinshiparticle 1935 • Aginsky, Bernard W. (Bernard Willard)
Pomo • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This brief article, written by B. W. Aginsky, a professional anthropologist, is an attempt to show whether or not marriage is basically reflected in the kinship terminology of a given people. ...Population control in the Shanel (Pomo) Tribearticle 1939 • Aginsky, Bernard W. (Bernard Willard)
Pomo • North America > Northwest Coast and California
The material in this source, written by B. W. Aginsky, a professional anthropologist then at New York University, is devoted almost in its entirety to Hopland Valley Pomo beliefs about concept...Psychopathic trends in culturearticle 1939 • Aginsky, Bernard W. (Bernard Willard)
Pomo • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This work, written by B. W. Aginsky, a professional anthropologist at the College of the City of New York, draws upon the author's background in both anthropology and psychology to present to ...The socio-psychological significance of death among the Pomo Indiansarticle 1940 • Aginsky, Bernard W. (Bernard Willard)
Pomo • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This article deals with the concept of death among the Pomo, primarily as it manifests itself as the result of the direct or sometimes indirect retaliation either from the supernaturals as a p...