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Pueblo Indian Religion, Medicine, And The Good Life, Mary Elizabeth Hamlin

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

While a public health education trainee with the Division of Indian Health, United States Public Health Service, I became interested in the socio-religious structure of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. During the nine month field training period spent in the Albuquerque area I investigated the existing ethnological literature concerning the Pueblo Indians. Research investigation in the area of the relationship between religion and medicine was accomplished by study of literature and field observation and inquiry. My concern was not so much the epidemiological determinants of disease and its prevalence. Rather it was with the "behavior of the people in …

Preference For Male Children In Japanese And American Society, Joyce Aschenbrenner

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Is a preference for children of a given sex in a society primarily a result of cultural values, of social requirements or of individual needs? Although it is impossible completely to separate these types of influence, since social change may modify cultural traditions, and social interaction and cultural values influence individual needs. perhaps some assessment of the relative importance of various social and cultural phenomena involved in sex preference in a society can be attempted.

The present study is an exploratory treatment of the nature and degree of sex preference in two societies - Japanese and American - and a …

The Ethnological Use Of A Health Questionnaire, Nancy Way Lienke

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

In the summer of 1962 the population of Grand Portage Chippewa Indian Reservation was brought under review to determine the possible utility of the Cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire (CMI) in the examination of psychosocial patterns. The use of the questionnaire was part of an investigation of the cultural concepts of health and disease in Grand Portage community. The CMI, therefore, was administered in the context of an ethnological study, and it should be considered in this inquiry as an instrument for studying the socio-cultural dimensions of disease rather than as a method of gathering traditional epidemiological data.

This paper …

A Cross-Cultural Evaluation Of Festinger's Theory Of Cognitive Dissonance, Harold E. Nelson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The purpose of this paper is to attempt an evaluation, in cross-cultural terms, of Leon Festinger's Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, as a research tool. The specific problem to be treated is a consideration of the extent to which dissonance theory can be made applicable in varying situations in diverse cultural settings. Prior to an exposition of methodology, a short abstract of the hypothesis and some of its ramifications is appropriate.

A Preliminary Report On The Itasca Bison Site, Creighton T. Shay

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

In the summer of 1937 excavations conducted by the University of Minnesota Anthropology Department in Itasca State Park yielded extinct bison and other animal remains along with several stone artifacts. A preliminary notice was published in Science shortly after excavation was completed (Jenks, 193 7). The bones were extracted from a marl layer underlying a peat bog near the south end of the west arm of Lake Itasca. The deposit was discovered during construction of a road bridge over Nicollet Creek adjacent to the site. Material in the following report was assembled from unpublished field notes and records on file …

Some Problems In Minnesota Chippewa Acculturation, Jerome S. Stromberg

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The "Indian Problem" is a term frequently used without precise definition. It serves, perhaps, to bring to the mind of the general public conditions of poverty, backwardness, drunkenness, disrespect for the law, and lack of education and community organization among the Indians. An objection to this approach is that it does not provide adequate or systematic understanding of the basic nature of this "problem," but refers rather to the easily observable external manifestations. The "Indian Problem" approach also seems to attribute to all Indians an inherent tendency toward socially unacceptable behavior. A more profitable approach is to identify some of …

From Anthropometry To Isotopes In Physical Anthropology, Ladislav P. Novak

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Compensatory Blood-Brotherhood: A Comparative Analysis Of Institutionalized Friendship In Two African Societies, James L. Gibbs Jr.

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Economy And Protein Malnutrition Among The Digo, Luther P. Gerlach

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

In short, even where protein malnutrition is primarily a result of poor environment, economy, and technology, other, often less obvious, traditional cultural patterns must be taken into account in any development and improvement program. If kwashiorkor is to be eliminated satisfactorily, and if contingent problems are to be kept to a minimum, these other patterns must often also be modified.

The importance of traditional cultural patterns is perhaps best illustrated by an example of a people who suffer from protein malnutrition primarily because of them. The Digo tribe of coastal Kenya and Tanganyika, among whom this writer conducted anthropological field …

Ceramic Analysis Of The Blackduck Ware And Its General Cultural Relationships, G. Edward Evans

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The present paper involves the ceramic analysis section of a more comprehensive study relating to the seven most extensively excavated Blackduck focus sites in Minnesota. The pottery from the sites analyzed falls into three ware categories: the Blackduck ware, the Laurel or Rainy River ware, and a third unidentified ware. The Blackduck ware, which is the one with which we are primarily concerned, has been generally described by Lloyd A. Wilford several times (1941, 1955). His description of the pottery may be taken as a general ware description, although there are several details that need clarification. The· ware may be …

A Statistical Analysis Of Some Mississippian Projectile Points, Elden Johnson, Craig Henrikson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Upper And Lower Rice Lake Sites, G. Edward Evans

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Literature As An Ethnographic Aid, Mary Eaton Read

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Sociopolitical Changes In Two Migrant Tribes, Stanton K. Tefft

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Economy And Integration In A Changing Iranian Village, George J. Jennings

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

"Resistance" To Economic Change: The Masai, Robert S. Merrill

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

The History Of Policy In The Zande Scheme, Conrad C. Reining

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

An Archaic Horizon Cache From Southern Minnesota, Elden Johnson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

The Study Of Kinship Terminology Out Of Context: Some Values And Limitations Of A "Field" Technique, Jennette Jones

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Sex Differences In Frequencies Of Finger Patterns, W. D. Wallis

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

A Development Project And Culture Change In An Iranian Village, George J. Jennings

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Aspects Of Family Organization Among Samoan Immigrants To Hawaii, John Forster

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Carl Bodmer's Paintings As Ethnographic Documents, Joan Rupp

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Changing Social Relationships In An Eastern Dakota Community, Cynthia Kelsey

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of Documents Useful To The Ethnohistorian: The Papers Of Jonathan Carver., Russell Fridley

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of Documents Useful To The Ethnohistorian: The Writings Of Father Hennepin, F. Sanford Cutler

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

The Identification Of Bone Fragments From The Lee Mill Cave Site, Philip S. Taylor

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of Documents Useful To The Ethnohistorian: The Papers Of Lawrence Taliaferro, Willoughby M. Babcock

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Point Profiles As An Archeological Tool, Louis H. Powell

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Map Making Of The North Alaskan Eskimo, Robert F. Spencer

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.