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Culture change, social structure, and health behavior: a quantitative study of clinic use among the Apaches of the Mescalero Reservation
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1980 • Pages:
By: Kunstadter, Peter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The purpose of this study is to investigate and to try to account for the differential use of clinic facilities by the inhabitants of the Mescalero Indian Reservation. Basically, the author uses quantitative techniques (mainly Chisquare) to test the associations between a measure of the frequency of use of the Mescalero clinic and a number of variables or indicators that characterize differences in the population. In addition to this study of clinic use, Kunstadter provides a rather complete ethnographic outline of the present-day Mescalero as well as a lengthy review of their history. The Mescalero Indian Reservation contains descendants of the Mescalero, Chiricahua, and Lipan Apaches and the author has not distinguished amongst these in most of his discussions. The source has, therefore, been marked as if it pertained only to the Mescalero. The original reproduction of the photographs was so poor that virtually no use may be made of them. They have not been marked for category numbers, but may be found in Category 116, pp. vii-xxix.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Public welfare
- Culture summary
- Sickness
- Research methods
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Gender status
- Demography
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mescalero Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1956-1957, 1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Peter Kunstadter
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 1960
- UM61-02766
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mescalero Indians