Households and Families of the Longhouse Iroquois at Six Nations Reserve Merlin G. Myers ; foreword by Fred Eggan ; afterword by M. Sam Cronk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, Merlin G.

Series:

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Matrilineal kinship--Ontario--Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40.

Matrilineal kinship.

Cayuga Indians--Ontario--Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40--Social life and customs.

Cayuga Indians.

Cayuga Indians--Dwellings--Ontario--Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40.

Cayuga Indians--Kinship--Ontario--Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40.

Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.)--Social life and customs.

Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.).

Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.)--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (l, 258 p. ) ill., maps ;

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-245) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610466221

9781280466229

1280466227

9780803253773

080325377X

OCLC:

70200459