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Culture summaryessay 2011 • Bahr, Donald M.
O'odham • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a culture summary of the O’odham . Information is presented on major aspects of the O’odham culture....Pima and Papago social organizationessay 1983 • Bahr, Donald M.
O'odham • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a brief culture summary of O'Odham (Papago) ethnography from about the mid-nineteenth century to approximately the 1970s. Major topics discussed in this article include house and public building construction, settlement patterns, family and h...Pima and Papago medicine and philosophyessay 1983 • Bahr, Donald M.
O'odham • North America > Southwest and Basin
Shamans have traditionally dominated Piman (Pima and Papago) intellectual life both as the principal heroic type celebrated in popular song and poetry and as the main source for critical reflection on social issues (p. 193). This article, based in la...Pima-Papago Christianityarticle 1988 • Bahr, Donald M.
O'odham • North America > Southwest and Basin
This paper consists of two parts. Part 1 describes the history of Christianity among the Pima-Papago, while part 2 places today's fiestas in the context of the rest of today's (i, e., late twentieth century)Christianity. The key point of the first pa...Piman Shamanism and staying sickness (Ka´:cim Mu´mkidag)Book 1974 • Bahr, Donald M. et al.
O'odham • North America > Southwest and Basin
This study, which has been developed through the collaboration of the author with a Papago Indian shaman (Juan Gegorio), a Papago Indian translator (David I. Lopez), and a Papago Indian linguist (Albert Alvarez), presents an introduction to the study...