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Apachean Culture History and Ethnology

By: Keith H. Basso,Morris E. Opler

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Apachean Culture History and Ethnology

By: Keith H. Basso,Morris E. Opler

This volume grew out of a symposium held at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November 1969 at New Orleans, Louisiana. The "Apachean Symposium" was designed to provide an opportunity for scholars engaged in research on southern Athapaskan cultures to report upon their findings, and wherever possible, to link them to known fact and existing theory. The diverse work presented here will add significantly to the knowledge about Apachean cultures, and each of contributions also pertains directly to wider spheres of anthropological concern.

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179

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University of Arizona Press

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ISBN 10

0816543690

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9780816543694

An Apache Life-way

The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

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An Apache Life-way

The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

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.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803286104

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9780803286108

Apache Odyssey

A Journey Between Two Worlds

By: Chris,Morris Edward Opler

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Apache Odyssey

A Journey Between Two Worlds

By: Chris,Morris Edward Opler

In 1933, famed anthropologist Morris Opler met a Mescalero Apache he called Chris and worked with him to record the man's life story, from the bloody Apache Wars into the reservation years of the mid-twentieth century. Chris's vivid recollections are enriched at strategic moments with crucial background information on Apache history and culture, supplied by Opler. Chris was born around 1880, the son of a Chiricahua man and a Mescalero woman. At the age of six, he and his family and other Chiricahua Apaches became prisoners of war and were relocated by the U.S. government to Florida and Alabama. Eventually settling on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico, Chris grew up expecting to become a shaman like his parents. Although Chris apprenticed as a shaman, his confidence in his healing ability waned after he was forced at the age of seventeen to attend federal government schools. Nonetheless, his interest in Mescalero religion, healing, and other traditional customs and beliefs remained, and that intimate knowledge of his people's world underscores and deepens the story of his own life.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803286163

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9780803286160

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler,David H. French

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Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler,David H. French

“We are dealing here with a living literature,” wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. Opler conducted field work among the Chiricahuas in the American Southwest, as he had earlier among the Jicarillas. The result is a definitive collection of their myths. They range from an account of the world destroyed by water to descriptions of puberty rites and wonderful contests. The exploits of culture heroes involve the slaying of monsters and the assistance of Coyote. A large part of the book is devoted to the irrepressible Coyote, whose antics make cautionary tales for the young, tales that also allow harmless expression of the taboo. Other striking stories present supernatural beings and “foolish people.”

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266

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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178720569X

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9781787205697

Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

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Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians

By: Morris Edward Opler

The publication of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians by the American Folk-Lore Society in 1938 illustrated the richness of the material on the tribes of the Southwest. Still a treasure-house of information, it appears with a new introduction and for the first time in paperback. Morris Edward Opler based his pioneering work on the accounts of Jicarilla men and women born in the nineteenth century. In a preface he explains that the stories, sacred and profane, were meant to be told on winter nights. The book takes up the creation of the universe, the birth of Killer-of-Enemies and Child-of-the-Water, the slaying of monsters, and the Hactcin ceremony. Other myths center on games and artifacts, hunting rituals and encounters with supernatural animals, and the trickster Coyote. There are also vivid, earthy stories of foolishness, unfaithfulness, and perversion; mon-strous enemies; and Dirty Boy's winning of a wife.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803286031

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9780803286030

Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona

The Earl H. Morris and Ann Axtell Morris Research

By: Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin,Ann Cordy Deegan,Elizabeth Ann Morris

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Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona

The Earl H. Morris and Ann Axtell Morris Research

By: Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin,Ann Cordy Deegan,Elizabeth Ann Morris

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, archaeologists Earl and Ann Axtell Morris discovered an abundance of sandals from the Basketmaker II and III through Pueblo III periods while excavating rockshelters in northeastern Arizona. These densely twined sandals made of yucca yarn were intricately crafted and elaborately decorated, and Earl Morris spent the next 25 years overseeing their analysis, description, and illustration. This is the first full published report on this unusual find, which remains one of the largest collections of sandals in Southwestern archaeology. This monograph offers an integrated archaeological and technical study of the footwear, providing for the first time a full-scale analysis of the complicated weave structures they represent. Following an account by anthropologist Elizabeth Ann Morris of her parents' research, textile authority Ann Cordy Deegan gives an overview of prehistoric Puebloan sandal types and of twined sandal construction techniques, revealing the subtleties distinguishing Basketmaker sandals of different time periods. Anthropologist Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin then discusses the decoration of twined sandals and speculates on the purpose of such embellishment.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816547793

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9780816547791

Book's by Morris E. Opler

Apachean Culture History and Ethnology

Apachean Culture History and Ethnology

An Apache Life-way

An Apache Life-way

Apache Odyssey

Apache Odyssey

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians

Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians

Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona

Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona

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