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Culture summaryessay 1997 • Merrill, William L.
Tarahumara • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
This is a culture summary of the Tarahumara...Rarámuri soulsBook 1988 • Merrill, William L.
Tarahumara • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
William Merrill '…examines the ways in which a society lacking formal educational institutions produces and transmits its basic knowledge about the world and how the nature of this process affects the distribution of the knowledge within the society'...The return of the Ahayu:daarticle 1993 • Merrill, William L. et al.
Zuni • North America > Southwest and Basin
In 1987, the Smithsonian Institution returned two <native>Ahayu:da</native> (twin gods or war gods)to the Zuni of western New Mexico. Negotiations leading to their repatriation extended over nine years. During this period, a number of issues regardin...Mobile agriculturalists and the emergence of sedentismarticle 1992 • Hard, Robert J. & Merrill, William L.
Tarahumara • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
Hard and Merrill examine factors affecting residential mobility among a Raramuri (Tarahumara) community in Chihuahua, Mexico. These residentially mobile agriculturalists move from their principal residences to growing-season residences associated wit...