Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Keywords:
Mescalero Indians
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Mescalero Indians--Biography
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Apache Indians--Biography
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Apache Indians--Claims
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Mescalero astronomy
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Mescalero Indians--Religion
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Mescalero philosophy
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Mescalero
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Mescalero
Abstract:
The Mescalero Apache collection consists of all English language documents covering a time span from approximately 1540 to the late 1980s. Documents which provide a general summary of Mescalero culture history and ethnography are Opler, and the last section of Farrer's work on this group. The three studies by Basehart in this collection, also provide information on social and political organization, leadership, and subsistence patterns. Dealing with the more metaphysical concepts of Mescalero society are the works by Farrer. Farrer discusses Mescalero concepts of space, time, and sound and the way they communicate meaning and order within the culture. The second study by Farrer, describes native concepts of cosmology, ethnoastronomy, and the relationship between celestial phenomena and the environment. Various other ethnographic topics of interest in this document are: shamanism and supernatural power in Chris and Opler; mythology associated with the birth of the culture hero, Child-of-the Water; Mescalero beliefs and practices related to death, and peyote ceremonialism in Opler. Of major interest in this collection of documents is the study of the girls' puberty ceremony in Nicholas, which gives a general account of this ceremony, and is further supplemented in greater detail in Farrer
Note:
Culture Summary: Mescalero Apache - Claire R. Farrer - 2010 -- - Apache odyssey: a journey between two worlds - by Morris E. Opler - 1969 -- - Mescalero Apache subsistence patterns and socio-political organization - [by] Harry W. Basehart. Commission findings on the Apache - 1974 -- - The resource holding corporation among the Mescalero Apache - Harry W. Basehart - 1967 -- - Mescalero Apache band organization and leadership - Harry W. Basehart - 1970 -- - The position of woman among the Mescalero Apache - Regina Flannery - 1932 -- - Mescalero Apache girls' puberty ceremony - Dan Nicholas - 1939 -- - The slaying of the monsters, a Mescalero Apache myth - Morris Edward Opler - 1946 -- - Reaction to death among the Mescalero Apache - Morris Edward Opler - 1946 --
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- The influence of aboriginal pattern and White contact on a recently introduced ceremony, the Mescalero peyote rite - Morris Edward Opler - 1936 -- - Play and inter-ethnic communication: a practical ethnography of the Mescalero Apache - Claire Rafferty Farrer - 1977 (1980 copy) -- - Mescalero Apache - Morris E. Opler - 1983 -- - Living life's circle: Mescalero Apache cosmovision - Claire R. Farrer - 1991
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