Chickasaw society and religion
By: John R. Swanton ; foreword by Greg O'Brien.
Contributors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
Edition: 1st Nebraska paperback printing.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9780803293496
Subjects: Chickasaw Indians.; Indians of North America -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Forty-second Annual report of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology, 1928, in series: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Origin legends; title: Terms of relationship; title: Birth relationships; title: Marriage relationships; title: Further notes on the terms used by a woman; title: Supplementary terms; title: Personal names; title: Social organization; title: Government; title: Property rights; title: Crime and punishment; title: Regulations regarding women; title: Childbirth and education of children; title: Marriage customs; title: Division of labor between the sexes; title: Burial customs; title: War customs; title: Hunting; title: Games; title: Measures and intercommunication; title: Religious beliefs in general; title: The fate of souls; title: Dances; title: The Pishofa ceremony; title: Doctoring and medicines.