An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

Description

Author: Opler, Morris Edward  (1907-1996)

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

Pub Date: Not stated (Reprint edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Previous owner’s name on upper corner Dedication page, near spine head.   Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1/2″ bend.  Front cover corners bowing.  Lower rear cover edge has an approx. 3/4″ area where it was bumped, extends to last two pages.    Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 1/4″ bend.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes:  PRINT ON DEMAND Edition.  Originally published in 1941 by the University of Chicago Press.  Facsimile Reprint.  “…I have endeavored to show how a person becomes a  Chiricahua as well as to indicate what he does because he is a Chiricahua.  Events are introduced in the order in which they are experienced in the course of the normal Chiricahua Apache life-cycle….to convey an appreciation of first awareness to the culture, of initial contacts with its precepts, of the steady pressure by which it shapes its carriers, and of the adjustments to its demands, obligations, and satisfactions which the individual accepts….I have wanted the average Chiricahua to be an intelligible and sympathetic figure, not in the sense that the reader approves or disapproves all his ideas and actions, but in the sense that the reader understands what he has become in terms of what he has experienced.”  (From the Preface)  (In very much the same vein: You can’t join the Marines.  You become one.)