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Culture Summaryessay 2010 • Farrer, Claire R.
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a culture summary of the Mescalero Apache. Information is presented on major aspects of Mescalero Apache culture....Play and inter-ethnic communicationBook 1980 • Farrer, Claire R.
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
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 h...Mescalero ritual dancearticle 1978 • Farrer, Claire R.
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article, based on fieldwork done intermittently between 1974 and 1977, briefly describes the dances, both ceremonial and secular, that occur during the annual puberty ceremony at Mescalero. In addition to description, the author provides an inte...Living life's circleBook 1991 • Farrer, Claire R.
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
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 Secon...