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Some psychological characteristics of the Delaware Indians during the 17th and 18th centuriesarticle 1950 • Wallace, Anthony F. C.
Delaware • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The author, a well known professional anthropologist, has attempted in this source to reconstruct from fragmentary historical accounts a psychological picture of the Delaware Indians. In his a...Some psychological determinants of culture change in an Iroquoian communityessay 1951 • Wallace, Anthony F. C.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This is an analysis of the hypothesis that although cultures may change radically, the 'psychic structure' underlying these cultures, as represented by the psychological characteristics of the...Origins of the longhouse religionessay 1978 • Wallace, Anthony F. C.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This is a study of the origins of the Longhouse Religion, developed on the basis of revelations by the Iroquois prophet Handsome Lake in 1799. Wallace discusses some of the contributing factor...Mentaweian social organizationarticle 1951 • Wallace, Anthony F. C.
Mentawaians • Asia > Southeast Asia
In this document Wallace critiques Warner Muensterberger's treatment of Mentaweian social organization and offers a reinterpretation of the basic structure of Mentaweian society. Some relative...The death and rebirth of the SenecaBook 1969 • Wallace, Anthony F. C. & Steen, Sheila K.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This monograph traces the history of the Seneca, especially the Allegany Seneca, from the seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. The role of the Iroquois in the American Revolution ...