Households and families of the Longhouse Iroquois at Six Nations Reserve
By: Merlin G. Myers ; foreword by Fred Eggan ; afterword by M. Sam Cronk.
Series: Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780803232259
Subjects: Cayuga Indians -- Ontario -- Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 -- Kinship.; Cayuga Indians -- Ontario -- Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 -- Dwellings.; Cayuga Indians -- Ontario -- Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 -- Social life and customs.; Matrilineal kinship -- Ontario -- Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40.; Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.) -- History.; Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: "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 work also features valuable Cayuga linguistic contributions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The household; title: Some economic features of the household group; title: Composition of the household group; title: Some politico-jural and ritual aspects of matrilineal descent; title: Kinship and marriage.