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Cheyenne names and cosmology
Author(s) -
MOORE JOHN H.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1984.11.2.02a00050
Subject(s) - ethnobiology , cheyenne , ethnography , cosmology , census , genealogy , geography , anthropology , linguistics , sociology , history , archaeology , philosophy , demography , population , physics , quantum mechanics
Cheyenne personal names reflect the structure of formal cosmology, both in the kinds of names selected and their frequency of appearance. A quantitative and statistical analysis of the 1880 U.S. Census shows a congruence between ethnobiology and the sex and ages of name‐bearers and confirms ethnographic assertions about naming and name changing from 1810 to the present . [Cheyenne, census, ethnobiology, cosmology, names]