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- Households and Families of the Longhouse Iroquois at Six Nations Reserve
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
This study of kinship relations, economics, and household organization among the modern Longhouse Iroquois, located in Ontario, Canada, fills a crucial gap in our knowledge of modern Iroquoian culture and history and provides a treasury of information about Longhouse social organization. Founded by nearly two thousand Iroquois allies of the British crown in 1784, the Six Nations Reserve became the first Iroquoian community to contain members of all five tribes of the original Iroquois Confederacy. By the mid-twentieth century, the reserve had divided along the lines of politics and religion into two distinct social groups, those who practiced Christianity and the followers of the more traditional Longhouse religion.
In the late 1950s, Merlin G. Myers conducted fieldwork among these traditionalists. He collected 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.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xlix-l
- Part I
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 5-34
- Part II
- 2. The Household
- pp. 39-54
- 4. Composition of the Household Group
- pp. 111-138
- Part III
- 6. Kinship and Marriage
- pp. 167-198
- 7. Summary and Conclusion
- pp. 201-215
- Glossary and Pronunciation Key
- pp. 231-242
- References
- pp. 243-245
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803253773
MARC Record
OCLC
70200459
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No