Grenville Goodwin was one of the leading field anthropologists during a crucial period in American Indian research--the 1930s. His letters from the field provide original source material on Western Apache beliefs and customs. They also reveal the attitudes and methods which made him so effective in his work. A dedicated and thorough ethnographer, Goodwin became familiar with every aspect of Western Apache culture. During this same period, Morris Opler was studying the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache in New Mexico. In ...
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Grenville Goodwin was one of the leading field anthropologists during a crucial period in American Indian research--the 1930s. His letters from the field provide original source material on Western Apache beliefs and customs. They also reveal the attitudes and methods which made him so effective in his work. A dedicated and thorough ethnographer, Goodwin became familiar with every aspect of Western Apache culture. During this same period, Morris Opler was studying the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache in New Mexico. In order to exchange information about their studies, Goodwin and Opler began corresponding. Both men were convinced that a long-overdue, systematic comparison of Apachean cultures would yield significant results.
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Hardcover. NOT Ex-library. Good condition. Dust jacket included. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Previous owner's name inside. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
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Edited by Morris E. Opler. Small 4to. Terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 103pp. Frontispiece. Fine/fine. Fresh-off-the-press pristine first edition of the engaging correspondence from this self-taught anthropologist of the American Southwest who pioneered the use of participant-observer ethnology in his landmark study that unfortunately wasn't published until 1941 after his death in 1940 at the young age of 32.
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Fine Hardback. Fine Dustjacket. 6 x 9" A solid copy; ----------SATISFACTION GUARANTEED---------FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE------ALL DUSTJACKETS ARE COVERED WITH NEW CLEAR MYLAR PROTECTOR-----
