The Role Of The Aged In Hupa Society

Description: 

The aged are well treated in Hupa society and enjoy a position of esteem. They assume roles of keepers of tribal knowledge, consultants, and mediators in religious and legal affairs, supervisors of communal tasks, and educators of the young. Death is dreaded and life in the next world offers rewards to only a selected few. Footnotes. Bibliography.

Protocol: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access
Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Death, Health, Miscellaneous, Tribal Actions
Original Date: 
1948
Language: 
English
Rights: 
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Source: 
Wallace, WJ. The role of the aged in Hupa society. Masterkey 1948; 22:86-92.
Identifier: 
9901768
Subject: 
Aged, Cultural Characteristics, Death, Frail Elderly
Type: 
Monograph