Book

The Havasupai woman

University of Utah Press (38) • Published In 1959 • Pages: viii, 170

By: Smithson, Carma Lee.

Abstract
This document, which was first submitted as an M. A. thesis to the Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, was the outcome of four field trips made over a total period of five months during which the author lived among the Havasupai people. This work gives the reader a general picture of Havasupai life both as it exists today, after considerable acculturation, and as it existed in the past prior to European contacts. Much emphasis in the paper is placed on the position of the Havasupai woman in the society. The data presented herein was obtained primarily from nine informants, three men and six women, ranging in age from 31 to 86 years of age. Frequent references to the works of other ethnographers who have studied the Havasupai in the past are made throughout the document, and many direct quotations are presented primarily from the studies of Leslie Spier.
Subjects
Geography
General character of religion
Infancy and childhood
Transmission of skills
Marriage
Conception
Division of labor by gender
Community heads
Local officials
Deliberative councils
Shamans and psychotherapists
culture
Havasupai
HRAF PubDate
2010
Region
North America
Sub Region
Southwest and Basin
Document Type
Book
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
John Beierle; 1960; John Beierle; 2010
Field Date
1951-1958
Coverage Date
1850-1958
Coverage Place
Havasupai, Cataract Canyon Region, Arizona, United States
Notes
Carma Lee Smithson
Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-170)
Thesis (M.A.)-University of Utah, Salt Lake, 1959
LCCN
59063167
LCSH
Yuman Indians