Cultural anthropologist Keith H. Basso (1940–2013) was once famous for his long term learn of the Western Apaches, particularly these from the fashionable group of Cibecue, Arizona, the positioning of his ethnographic and linguistic learn for fifty-four years.
certainly one of his earliest works, The Cibecue Apache, has now been learn by means of generations of scholars. It captures the genuine personality of Apache tradition not just as a result of its aim analyses and outlines but additionally a result of author's trust in permitting the folks to talk for themselves. Basso discovered their language, grew to become a relied on good friend and intimate, and again to the sphere usually to collect information, take part, and observe.
Basso's aim during this now-classic paintings is to explain Cibecue Apache perceptions, reviews, conflicts, and indecision. a first-rate goal is to depict parts of the Western Apache trust process, specifically these facing the supernatural. Emphasis is additionally given to the women' puberty rite, its that means and features, in addition to glossy Apache monetary and political life.
Brief desk of Contents:
Pronunciation Guide 1. Pre-Reservation Western Apache Society 2. Post-Reservation Western Apache Society three. the world of strength four. Curing Ceremonials five. the women' Puberty rite 6. Witchcraft 7. Missionaries Glossary
Titles of comparable curiosity additionally from Waveland Press: Farrer, Thunder Rides a Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present, 3rd variation (ISBN 9781577666998) and Hultkrantz, Native Religions of North the USA: the ability of Visions and Fertility (ISBN 9780881339857).
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