Book
Play and inter-ethnic communication: a practical ethnography of the Mescalero Apache
Xerox University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1980 • Pages:
By: Farrer, Claire R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study extracts and traces the operation of a number of organizing principles which appear to the anthropologist/folklorist author to pervade Mescalero social life. Going considerably beyond her core topic of the structure of play, Farrer shows how conceptualization of space, time and sound communicate meaning and order within a culture, then goes on to suggest ways in which ignorance of such organizing principles impedes interethnic communication, breeding tragic consequences under conditions of prolonged contact between peoples. Footnotes are filed in Category 116.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Proxemics
- Conversation
- Games
- Social relationships and groups
- Sodalities
- Etiquette
- Childhood activities
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Folklorist
- 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
- Jan Simpson ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1974-1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1974-1975
- 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
- Claire Rafferty Farrer
- UM77-22,951
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mescalero Indians