An Apache Life-Way
The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians
Morris E Opler author Charles R Kraut editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Published:1st Sep '96
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Originally published in 1941, An Apache Life-Way remains one of the most important and innovative studies of southwestern Native Americans, drawing upon a rich and invaluable body of data gathered by the ethnographer Morris Edward Opler during the 1930s. Blending the analysis of individual Apache lives with the analysis of their culture, this landmark study tells of the ceremonies, religious beliefs, social life, and economy of the Chiricahua Apache. Opler traces, in fascinating detail, how a person “becomes an Apache,” beginning with conception, moving through puberty rites, marriage, and the various religious, domestic, and military duties and experiences of adulthood, and concluding with the rites and beliefs surrounding death.
ISBN: 9780803286108
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 567g
530 pages