Marobavi: A Study of an Assimilated Group in Northern Sonora

Description

Author: Owen, Roger C.  (1928-2011)

Publisher: University of Arizona

Pub Date: 1959

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Ex-corporate library.  Binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Library tag on lower front cover corner at spine foot, tape extends over spine to rear cover.  Previous owner’s (first? second?) stamp on upper front cover corner and on upper corner ffep/frontispiece.  Upper rear cover corner at spine head has an approx. 1″ bend, probably dropped.  Bend extends no further than the cover.  Sun-fading to spine and front spine edge.   Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona Number 3.  Owen’s revised Master’s degree thesis.  Owen spent 71 days in a 5 month period (47%) studying an Opata Indian village of Mexico.  Didn’t have enough time to document genealogical history, but contemporary stuff, he’s all over it.  Opata acculturation as evidenced by one mid-twentieth century Mexican Indian village (Marobavi, a pseudonym).