article
Myth and Practice in Jicarilla Apache eschatology
Journal of American folklore • 73 (288) • Published In 1960 • Pages: 133-153
By: Opler, Morris Edward.
Abstract
The author discusses Jicarilla Apache funeral rites and beliefs regarding the afterlife. Various birds and animals are associated with ghosts of people from different tribes.
- Subjects
- Drives and emotions
- Life and death
- Burial practices and funerals
- Social readjustments to death
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnozoology
- culture
- Jicarilla Apache
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2022
- Field Date
- 1934-1935
- Coverage Date
- 1934-1935
- Coverage Place
- Jicarilla Apache Reservation; New Mexico, United States
- Notes
- Morris E. Opler
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 17028737
- LCSH
- Jicarilla Indians