Households and families of the Longhouse Iroquois at Six Nations Reserve / Merlin G. Myers ; forewor...
Households and families of the Longhouse Iroquois at Six Nations Reserve / Merlin G. Myers ; forewor...
Households and families of the Longhouse Iroquois at Six Nations Reserve / Merlin G. Myers ; foreword by Fred Eggan ; afterword by M. Sam Cronk.
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, c2006.
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N306.83089/ 1
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English
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l, 258 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
The household -- Some economic features of the household group -- Composition of the household group -- Some politico-jural and ritual aspects of matrilineal descent -- Kinship and marriage.
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, c2006.
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Nebraska
Date Published
c2006.
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"In the late 1950s, Merlin G. Myers conducted fieldwork, collecting data on household structure and kinship relations from 150 families and interpreted his findings within the context of structural-functional anthropology, providing a rare example of British anthropological theory from this time applied to a North American Native community. His wor...
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Households and families of the Longhouse Iroquois at Six Nations Reserve / Merlin G. Myers ; foreword by Fred Eggan ; afterword by M. Sam Cronk.
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Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-245) and index.
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c2006.
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N306.83089/ 1
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74VKKmrQz73g
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9780803232259
080323225X (cloth : alk. paper)
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306.8308997554071352
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991021780719702626
