Book
Portraits of "The Whiteman": linguistic play and cultural symbols among the western Apache
Cambridge University Press • Cambridge [eng.] • Published In 1979 • Pages:
By: Basso, Keith H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 devices, their function as an expression of what is offensive to the Apache about Anglo-Americans, and their function in solidifying social relationships among the Apache.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Speech
- Sociolinguistics
- Humor
- Ethnosociology
- 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.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- community of Cibecue, Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Keith H. Basso ; ill. by Vincent Craig
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-120)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78031535
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Apache Indians