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The Cibecue ApacheBook 1970 • Basso, Keith H.
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is an ethnographic account of the modern day Apache of Cibecue on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. The first part of the book is devoted to summaries of the pre- and post-reservation social organization, including discussions of social units,...Portraits of "The Whiteman"Book 1979 • Basso, Keith H.
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This book is concerned primarily with caricatures of 'Whitemen' that occur in Western Apache joking behavior. The data were collected primarily at Cibecue. Basso presents a number of texts of jokes and discusses them in terms of metalinguistic device...The gift of Changing Womanarticle 1966 • Basso, Keith H.
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This paper describes in extensive detail the western Apache girl's puberty rite (NA IH ES) as performed by Apaches living on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. The puberty rite is interwoven with an enactment of the Changing Woman myth. Also include...Heavy with hatredBook 1980 • Basso, Keith H.
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is an excellent analysis of the ways in which belief in witchcraft and witchcraft accusations function in the Western Apache Cibecue community. The author reviews the literature on witchcraft, sketches the Western Apache historical/geographical ...Western Apacheessay 1983 • Basso, Keith H.
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this document Basso presents a culture summary of some of the major features of Western Apache ethnography, ranging in time from the pre 1400 period to approximately 1969. Topic include language and territory, prehistory and early history, subsist...Western Apache language and cultureBook 1990 • Basso, Keith H.
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a study of the language and culture of the Western Apache, with a focus on the Cibecue of the Fort Apache Reservation. Topics include: a semantic analysis of a set of Apache 'classificatory' verb stems; a discussion of the semantic domain del...Western Apache raiding and warfareBook 1971 • Goodwin, Grenville & Basso, Keith H., 1940
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
Despite the abundant literature on the Western Apache, few non-Indian writers have really taken the time to try to understand the way of life of the people, and even fewer still have attempted to write effectively about it. Much of the early literatu...Western Apache ecologyessay 1971 • Griffin, P. Bion et al.
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article responds to the position put forth by Yehudi Cohen (1968:46) that 'the adoption of a new source of energy by a society is invariably followed by changes in the institutional configuration of its culture.' By tracing the historical change...