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Kiowa Belief and Ritual

Kiowa Belief and Ritual

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians

Native American HistoryAnthropologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 1496200535
ISBN13: 9781496200532
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jul 1 2017
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.64
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Directed by anthropologist Alexander Lesser in 1935, the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology sponsored a field school in southwestern Oklahoma that focused on the neighboring Kiowas. During two months, graduate students compiled more than 1,300 pages of single-spaced field notes derived from cross-interviewing thirty-five Kiowas. These eyewitness and first-generation reflections on the horse and buffalo days are undoubtedly the best materials available for reconstructing pre-reservation Kiowa beliefs and rituals. The field school compiled massive data resulting in a number of publications on this formerly nomadic Plains tribe, though the planned collaborative ethnographies never materialized. The extensive Kiowa field notes, which contain invaluable information, remained largely unpublished until now.


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