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Notes on some White Mountian Apache social pathologies
Plateau • 42 • Published In 1969 • Pages: 11-19
By: Levy, Jerrold E., Kunitz, Stephen J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a preliminary discussion of the authors' study of 'social pathologies' -- alcoholism, homicide, and suicide -- among the Western Apache. Based on records and published materials, the authors' findings indicate that, compared to the rest of the nation, homicide rates are high, but that alcoholism (as measured by incidence of cirrhosis) may not be as great a problem as is often said. Further, they suggest that historical materials seeem to indicate that drinking, homicide, and suicide may be continuations of aboriginal patterns rather than post-reservation coping behaviors.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mortality
- Alcoholic beverages
- Offenses against life
- Alcoholism and drug addiction
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; Marlene Martin ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- 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)
- White Mountain Apache, San Carlos Indian Reservation, east central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Jerrold E. Levy and Stephen J. Kunitz
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 19)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 32008235
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Apache Indians