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An Apache life-way; the economic, social, and religious institutions of the Chiricahua Indians. Cover Image Book Book

An Apache life-way the economic, social, and religious institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

Opler, Morris Edward 1907-1996 (Author).

Summary: Attempts to convey an appreciation of first awareness to the culture, of initial contacts with its precepts, of the steady pressure by which it shapes its carriers, and of the adjustments to its demands, obligations, and satisfactions which the individual accepts.

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  • Physical Description: xvii, 500 pages illustrations, map 22 cm
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  • Publisher: New York, Cooper Square Publishers, 1965 [©1941]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-482).
Formatted Contents Note: Location and historical sketch -- Childhood -- maturation -- Social relations of adults -- Folk beliefs, medial practice, and shamanism -- Maintenance of the household -- Marital and sexual life -- The round of life -- Political organization and status -- Death, mourning and the underworlsd.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library E 99 .A6 S7 O65 1965 262878 Stacks Available -
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