Book
The Western Apache: living with the land before 1950
University of Oklahoma Press • 177 • Published In 1986 • Pages: xiv, 273
By: Buskirk, Winfred.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The focus of this book is the depiction of Western Apache lifeways during the pre-reservation period (prior to the 1870s). The ethnographic data were gathered from the memory accounts of informants and supplemented with information from the published literature. Although most of the cultural information presented in this document refers specifically to the Cibecue and White Mountain Apache groups, these data will be found generally applicable to all of the Western Apache people. The basic descriptive section of this study presents in detail the fundamental aspects of Western Apache subsistence economy (agriculture, hunting, and gathering) and related material culture such as the procurement, processing, storage and preparation of foods, as well as associated rituals, beliefs, social implications, and attitudes concerning these phases of culture (p. 3). In addition to the above, Buskirk also describes culture changes that have taken place among the Western Apache in the post-reservation period (ca. 1870s - 1950).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Food preparation
- Diet
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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 ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939, 1941, 1946-1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800 - 1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cibecue and White Mountain Apache, east central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Winfred Buskirk ; foreword by Morris E. Opler
- Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 1949
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-256) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86040069
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Apache Indians