Seri Bands in Cross-Cultural Perspective
An earlier version of this paper was awarded the 1980 Edward P. Dozier Award by the Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5982668 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas E Sheridan (Heritage Center of the Union League of Philadelphia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 185-213 |
| Publication date | 1982-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | KIVA (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-1940 • E-ISSN: 2051-6177 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00231940.1982.11760572 |
| OpenAlex | W2511410588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The Seri Indians of coastal Sonora. Mexico, are perhaps the least known of the surviving Indian groups of North America. Not surprisingly, reconstructions of Seri social organization have reflected, often uncritically, the ongoing anthropological debate about the nature of hunter-gatherer societies in general. Most modem studies conclude that aboriginal Seri bands conformed to the patrilineal, territorial model of hunter-gatherer social organization. This paper evaluates the ethnographic and ethnohistoric evidence upon which this model is based, and concludes that the evidence is fragmentary, ambiguous, and unconvincing. It then examines the ecological opportunities and constraints of the Seri natural environment and compares the Seri to hunter-gatherer groups in other arid areas of the world, in particular, the Aborigines of western Australia, the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, and the Yuman groups of southwestern North America. The paper concludes that the Seri were probably organized into composite, bilocal bands with flexible memberships and permeable territories
Archaeology · Arid · Desert (philosophy · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Hunter-gatherer · Natural (archaeology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social organization · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Natural History · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies · Ecology · History · Rangeland and Wildlife Management
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |