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The gift of Changing Woman
U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs. • (76) • Published In 1966 • Pages: 113-173
By: Basso, Keith H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 included is an analysis of the symbolic content of the puberty ceremonial and its functional relationship to Apache society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Friendships
- Kin relationships
- Clans
- Organized ceremonial
- Puberty and initiation
- 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
- article
- 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
- Delgra Childs, John Beierle ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1960, 1961 (summers)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1960-1961
- 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, east central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Keith H. Basso
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 38026823
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Apache Indians