Book
The Western Apache: living with the land before 1950
University of Oklahoma Press • 177 • Published In 1986 • Pages: xiv, 273
By: Buskirk, Winfred.
Abstract
The focus of this book is the depiction of Western Apache lifeways during the pre-reservation period (prior to the 1870s). The ethnographic data were gathered from the memory accounts of informants and supplemented with information from the published literature. Although most of the cultural information presented in this document refers specifically to the Cibecue and White Mountain Apache groups, these data will be found generally applicable to all of the Western Apache people. The basic descriptive section of this study presents in detail the fundamental aspects of Western Apache subsistence economy (agriculture, hunting, and gathering) and related material culture such as the procurement, processing, storage and preparation of foods, as well as associated rituals, beliefs, social implications, and attitudes concerning these phases of culture (p. 3). In addition to the above, Buskirk also describes culture changes that have taken place among the Western Apache in the post-reservation period (ca. 1870s - 1950).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2000
- Field Date
- 1939, 1941, 1946-1948
- Coverage Date
- 1800 - 1950
- Coverage Place
- Cibecue and White Mountain Apache, east central Arizona, United States
- Notes
- by Winfred Buskirk ; foreword by Morris E. Opler
- Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 1949
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-256) and index
- LCCN
- 86040069
- LCSH
- Western Apache Indians