An Apache Life-Way

The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

By: Morris E. Opler, Charles R. Kraut (Introduction by)

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Originally published in 1941, An Apache Life-Way remains one of the most important and innovative studies of southwestern Native Americans, drawing upon a rich and invaluable body of data gathered by the ethnographer Morris Edward Opler during the 1930s. Blending the analysis of individual Apache lives with the analysis of their culture, this landmark study tells of the ceremonies, religious beliefs, social life, and economy of the Chiricahua Apache. Opler traces, in fascinating detail, how a person "becomes an Apache," beginning with conception, moving through puberty rites, marriage, and the various religious, domestic, and military duties and experiences of adulthood, and concluding with the rites and beliefs surrounding death.

Morris Edward Opler is Professor Emeritus of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Charles R. Kaut is Associate Professor Emeritus of anthropology at the University of Virginia.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Indigenous Peoples Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Physical Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Introduction	p. vii
Notes	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Location and Historical Sketch	p. 1
Childhood	p. 5
Maturation	p. 77
Social Relations of Adults: Relations between Men and Women	p. 140
Folk Beliefs, Medical Practice and Shamanism	p. 186
Maintenance of the Household	p. 316
Marital and Sexual Life: Personality Adjustment between Husband and Wife	p. 401
The Round of Life	p. 427
Political Organization and Status	p. 462
Death, Mourning, and the Underworld	p. 472
Appendix	p. 479
Selected Bibliography	p. 481
Index	p. 483
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The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

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