Book
Living life's circle: Mescalero Apache cosmovision
University of New Mexico Press • Albuquerque • Published In 1991 • Pages:
By: Farrer, Claire R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The information on which this monograph is based was gathered on the Mescalero Reservation by the author in the traditional anthropological style of participant observation aided in large part by data provided by her Mescalero informant Bernard Second. Much of the document deals with native concepts of cosmology, ethnoastronomy and the relationship between celestial phenomena and the environment, many aspects of which are integrated into the discussion of the girls' puberty ceremony held during the summer months and described in great detail in this work. The final section of this study presents a summary of Mescalero culture history from the sixteenth to the late twentieth centuries.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Informants
- History
- Puberty and initiation
- Texts translated into english
- Mythology
- Ethnometeorology
- Mats and basketry
- Visual arts
- Drama
- 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 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1540-1988
- 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 R. Farrer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-260) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91023668
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mescalero astronomy
- Mescalero Indians--Religion
- Mescalero philosophy