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Mescalero Apache band organization and leadership
Southwestern journal of anthropology • 26 • Published In 1970 • Pages: 87-106
By: Basehart, Harry W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is an historical reconstruction of Mescalero band organization and leadership during the mid-nineteenth century. The author's orientation is functional and he concludes that 'The institution of leadership preserved the options of the individual at the same time that it fostered the processes that maintained a structure of autonomous political segments' (p. 104).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Settlement patterns
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mescalero Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1979-1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1849-1861
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern United States and northern Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harry W. Basehart
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-106)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47005758
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mescalero Indians