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An ethnographic sketch of Old Harbor, Kodiakarticle 1970 • Befu, Harumi
Alutiiq • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This source is a brief ethnographic sketch of the village of Old Harbor, Kodiak based on less than one month of fieldwork in 1960. The author admits that the data are scanty but since the community was destroyed in 1964 by an earthquake, these are th...Kinship organization of the Saru Ainuarticle 1962 • Sugiura, Ken ichi & Befu, Harumi
Ainu • Asia > East Asia
This study discusses a unique feature of the Ainu kinship system of Saru River Valley, Hokkaido. Among the Ainu, men trace their descent patrilineally and women matrilineally. However, there is little evidence that the matrilineal group is functional...