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Western Apache raiding and warfare: from the notes of Grenville Goodwin
University of Arizona Press • Tucson • Published In 1971 • Pages:
By: Goodwin, Grenville, Basso, Keith H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 literature on these people was written by white men who fought the Indians and who took part in their eventual roundup for placement on reservations. Little of this literature reflects a view of the values by which Apaches lived. In this study, which deals primarily with raiding and warfare behavior, Goodwin attempts to write ethnography from the standpoint of the Indians living it -- through the '… personal narratives of six Apache men and women whose life experiences included the last phase of Apache life when raiding was still an important aspect of their adaptation' (p. 7). Although not all informants actually participated in raising and warfare activities themselves, their information was obtained from parents and grandparents who did take part. During the several years that the author lived among the Apache, many pages of field notes were accumulated as the first step in the preparation of a major monograph on the Western Apache, a goal never fulfilled. Eventually these field notes, (particularly those dealing with social organization and religion), were painstakingly transcribed from the handwritten originals by Mrs. Goodwin, and edited by graduate students at the University of Chicago for publication. It was not until 1969, however, that the actual publication of Goodwin's material became feasible. At that time, Mrs. Goodwin and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona made the arrangement for the final editing and publication of the whole body of notes. The present work is divided into two major sections, the first of which deals with the six autobiographical narratives previously noted, dealing with events that took place from the 1850's to the 1880's. The second part is composed of briefer statements organized under the topical heading of 'weapons,' 'taboos,' etc.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Brawls, riots, and banditry
- Military organization
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Western Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1929-1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850s-1880s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- east central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edited by Keith H. Basso, with the assistance of E. W. Jernigan and W. B. Kessell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-323)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73142255
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Apache Indians