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Village JapanBook 1972 • Beardsley, Richard K. (Richard King) et al.
Okayama • Asia > East Asia
This book contains a well-rounded ethnographic study of the rice-growing community of Niiike. The study is based on field work conducted in the 1950s by an interdisciplinary team of scholars from the University of Michigan. While Niiike is the focus ...The household in the status system of Japanese villagesBook 1951 • Beardsley, Richard K. (Richard King)
Okayama • Asia > East Asia
This source is a brief discussion on Japanese social structure and values. Field data from Niiike in Okayama Prefecture and Tsutsu on Tsushima Island are presented and compared in order to illustrate the author's contention that '...Japanese villager...William Holland Thomas and the Cherokee claimsessay 1979 • Iobst, Richard W. (Richard William)
Cherokee • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Under the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 the Eastern Cherokees ceded all of their lands east of the Mississippi to the United States in return for five million dollars and the right ot occupy lands in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma next to those alre...Seasonal variation and interpersonal conflict in the central Canadian Arcticarticle 1982 • Condon, Richard G. (Richard Guy)
Copper Inuit • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This article examines conflict seasonality among the Inuit residents on Holman Island in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Condon shows that conflict seasonality '…is generated from a complex interaction between cultural institutions and environme...Inuit youthBook 1987 • Condon, Richard G. (Richard Guy)
Copper Inuit • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This work is a comprehensive study of adolescent development in the central Canadian Arctic, with a particular focus on the Inuit community of Holman Island. After presenting brief introductory data on his methodology, the geography of the region, an...Inuit behavior and seasonal change in the Canadian ArcticBook 1983 • Condon, Richard G. (Richard Guy)
Copper Inuit • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
The goal of Condon's research is to investigate the effects of seasonal rhythmicity on human behavior and physiology in an isolated, relatively traditional Inuit settlement on Holman Island in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Condon provides a de...Zuni prehistory and history to 1850essay 1979 • Woodbury, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin)
Zuni • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a brief study of Zuni prehistory and history in Arizona and New Mexico up to about 1850. Singled out for special attention in this article are the sites of Allantown and Kiatuthlanna in Arizona, and Hawikuh and the village of the Great Kivas ...Culture summaryessay 1997 • Wagner, Richard A. & Beierle, John
Montenegrins • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This is a culture summary of the Montenegrins....Culture summaryessay 1997 • Wagner, Richard A.
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This is a culture summary of the Serbs. nformation is presented on major aspects of Serbian culture....Children and change in Orasac, 1870-1975Book 1992 • Wagner, Richard A.
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This paper is a study in historical demography dealing with the Serbian village of Orasac from the demographic, ethnographic, oral traditional, and socio-linguistic perspectives. The time span of this work is primarily from 1870-1975, although on occ...The Konso economy of southern Ethiopiaessay 1962 • Kluckhohn, Richard
Konso • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document describes the role of Konso markets in integrating different spheres of the economy. While predominantly cereal farmers, the Konso pursue a range of subsidiary livelihood strategies including hunting, gathering, and craft production. Th...Education for transcendenceessay 1976 • Katz, Richard
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This paper describes the experience of transcendence or trance (!KIA) in which healing takes place. The particular focus of the study is the !Kung's education for transcendence: how they learn to have, or better to accept transcendence, how it is ind...The MalaysBook 1950 • Winstedt, Richard
Malays • Asia > Southeast Asia
This study attempts to reconstruct a history of cultural development and cultural influences in Malaya from the earliest prehistoric times. In eight chapters covering origins, beliefs and religion, social, political, legal and economic systems, liter...Malay literatureBook 1923 • Winstedt, Richard
Malays • Asia > Southeast Asia
This study of Malay folklore traces its development and the various cycles of popular tales and quotes many texts both in Malay and in English. The relationship to other cultures is emphasized. The ideas about social relationships developed through t...Life and customsBook 1925 • Winstedt, Richard
Malays • Asia > Southeast Asia
This study - Part II of 3 papers on Malay life and customs describes the kampong, the Malay house and its equipment as they appear today and traces the influences which have affected their development. Distinctions are drawn throughout between the po...Malay industriesBook 1925 • Winstedt, Richard
Malays • Asia > Southeast Asia
This study discusses Malay crafts, including carpentry and boatbuilding, metal work, mats, baskets, and pottery as well as weaving (including spinning, dyeing and cord making). Former techniques used in these crafts are described in detail and the in...Malay industriesBook 1929 • Winstedt, Richard
Malays • Asia > Southeast Asia
This paper describes in detail the traps, nets and snares used in fishing, hunting and trapping and the purposes and circumstances under which each type is used. The role of the shaman (pawang) in all of these activities is discussed. Footnotes throu...The Malay magicianBook 1961 • Winstedt, Richard
Malays • Asia > Southeast Asia
This source is a study of magic as it exists in the Federation of Malay in general and more specifically as it exists in the Malay States of Kelantan, Perak, Pahang, Selangor and Negri Sembilan. Some references are also made to the magic of Patani, a...Culture summaryessay 2009 • Sattler, Richard A.
Creek • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This is a culture summary of the Creek. Information is presented on major aspects of Creek culture....Remnants, renegades, and runawaysessay 1996 • Sattler, Richard A.
Seminole • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Sattler reexamines the history and ethnogenesis of the Seminole, focussing on sociopolitical organization. He discusses the disintegration of the Muskogean chiefdoms in the Colonial Period and their replacement by less powerful polities. The Seminole...Cry for luckBook 1992 • Keeling, Richard
Yurok • North America > Northwest Coast and California
In overall context this monograph describes a living musical tradition among the Yurok and other closely related groups, largely in relation to earlier beliefs and practices as documented by recordings and narratives that were collected between 1900 ...Text and context of Tlingit oral traditionBook 1988 • Dauenhauer, Richard
Tlingit • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This dissertation is a study of the relationship of text and context in Tlingit oral tradition and it demonstrates the congruence of Tlingit oral literary structure and social structure. Dauenhauer analyzes three forms of oral literature - prose narr...Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise on the expedition of Sir John Franklin's ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55book chapter 1889 • Collinson, Richard
Copper Inuit • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is the journal of H.M.S. Enterprise's voyage to the Arctic from 1850 to 1855 in search of Sir Franklin. The entries contain mainly events concerning the expedition itself and give little pertinent information on the Inuit. A few short passages h...Account of the proceedings of H.M.S. Enterprise from Behring Strait to Cambridge Baybook chapter 1855 • Collinson, Richard
Copper Inuit • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is a brief account by Collinson of the expedition to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin. Since it is primarily a narrative of a voyage it contains only a limited amount of information about the Copper Inuit....PieganBook 1966 • Lancaster, Richard
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
During the year 1958 and again in 1962 the author, a linguist by training, lived among the contemporary Blackfoot on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, Montana. While there he was adopted as a son by Chief White Calf, a 105 year old Blackfoot leader, ...