Culture summary
essay 2000 • Schlegel, Alice

Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a culture summary of the Hopi....

Hopi family structure and the experience of widowhood
essay 1988 • Schlegel, Alice

Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article discusses widowhood in Hopi society as it existed from the time of the first major penetration of the outside world in the 1860s to World War II. The author describes the traditio...

African political models in the American Southwest
article 1992 • Schlegel, Alice

Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
According to Schlegel "most ethnological and archeological analyses of Pueblo social organization derive its particular character from the need to adopt to an arid environment. This article ch...

The adolescent socialization of the Hopi girl
article 1973 • Schlegel, Alice

Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a study of the adolescent socialization process of the Hopi girl. Schlegel points out that this is a period of crisis for the girl: a period of strained relations with her mother, mood...

Sexual antagonism among the sexually egalitarian Hopi
article 1979 • Schlegel, Alice

Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This paper deals with sexual antagonism in a sexually egalitarian society, the Hopi, but the sexual antagonism it deals with is not general, as between the sexes, but more specific, inherent i...

Male and female in Hopi thought and action
essay 1977 • Schlegel, Alice

Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This paper examines some of the assumptions that have been made regarding female reproduction, separation of the sexes, and the position of women in Hopi society (p. 245). The document discuss...

Fathers, daughters, and kachina dolls
article 1989 • Schlegel, Alice

Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this study Schlegel explores the symbolic significance of the gift of a kachina doll from "father" to daughter in Hopi society. The term "father" as used here, refers not only to biological...