Book
Culture contact and acculturation of the southwestern Pomo
[s.n.] • [S.L.] • Published In 1955 • Pages:
By: Kennedy, Mary Jean.
Abstract
Over the past one hundred and fifty years the material and ideational content of California Indian culture has been altered dramatically as the result of contact with foreign cultures, "…yet there are still identifiable social groups which consider themselves as Indian and are regarded as such by other segments of American society" (p. ii). In this dissertation Kennedy examines the Southwestern Pomo of central California as an example of an ethnic group which has maintained its cultural identity through time primarily through the "…purposive control of supernatural sanctions -- adherence to the religious cult and avoidance of organized Christian churches as proselytizing agencies for American culture" (p. 3). As a background to this study the author provides data on the aboriginal Southwestern Pomo culture (e.g., geography, material culture, economy, social organization, religion, ceremonies, etc.), then Spanish and Russian influences on the Pomo, life on the Kashia reservation, and the development of the Bole-Maru cult. The document concludes with a summary analysis of Southwestern Pomo culture change.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1999
- Field Date
- 1952-1953
- Coverage Date
- nineteenth - mid twentieth centuries
- Coverage Place
- Southwestern Pomo, central California, United States
- Notes
- by Mary Jean Kennedy
- Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-181)
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley
- LCSH
- Pomo Indians