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Big Cypress: a changing Seminole community, by Merwyn S. Garbarino.

By: Series: Case studies in cultural anthropologyPublication details: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1972]Description: x, 132 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0030866723
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 22 GAR
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CONTENT

Introduction

The background
History
The environment
The subsistence basis

Life at big cypress
The field situation
Big cypress and American society

Health, education and religion
Health
Education
Religion

Social Organization
Marriage and the family
The camp
Behaviour patterns
The clan
Life cycle
Kinship Terminology

Political organization
History
The Seminole tribe of Florida- the polity
The Seminole tribe of Florida, Inc- the corporation
Control by the agency
Leadership and authority
Rewards of leadership
Indian people and the agency
Personal characteristics of the leaders
Political attitudes
Political participation

The cattle program and acculturation
History of the cattle program
Problems of Indian ownership
A case history
The Cattlemen's association
The decision on the new cattle and pasture regulations
Attitudes of the owners toward the cattle program
General expectations

Bibliography: p. 131-132.

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