Book
Play and inter-ethnic communication: a practical ethnography of the Mescalero Apache
Xerox University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1980 • Pages:
By: Farrer, Claire R..
Abstract
This study extracts and traces the operation of a number of organizing principles which appear to the anthropologist/folklorist author to pervade Mescalero social life. Going considerably beyond her core topic of the structure of play, Farrer shows how conceptualization of space, time and sound communicate meaning and order within a culture, then goes on to suggest ways in which ignorance of such organizing principles impedes interethnic communication, breeding tragic consequences under conditions of prolonged contact between peoples. Footnotes are filed in Category 116.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Folklorist
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Jan Simpson ; 1980
- Field Date
- 1974-1975
- Coverage Date
- 1974-1975
- Coverage Place
- Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico, United States
- Notes
- Claire Rafferty Farrer
- UM77-22,951
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSH
- Mescalero Indians