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Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache
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Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache Soft cover - 1994

by Goodwin, Grenville; Greenfeld, Philip J

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Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1994. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 223 pages. Paperback in illustrated orange wrappers. There is light wear to the bindings. Outer edge of the text block has some smudges. The text is clean and sound.
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  • Title Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache
  • Author Goodwin, Grenville; Greenfeld, Philip J
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition First printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 223
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ
  • Date 1994
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 051580
  • ISBN 9780816514519 / 0816514518
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.01 x 0.64 in (23.01 x 15.27 x 1.63 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Geographic Orientation: Arizona
  • Library of Congress subjects White Mountain Apache Indians - Folklore
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94002249
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.208

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From the jacket flap

These 57 tales (with seven variants) gathered between 1931 and 1936 include major cycles dealing with Creation and Coyote, minor tales, and additional stories derived from Spanish and Mexican tradition. The tales are of two classes: holy tales said by some to expalin the origin of ceremonies and holy powers, and tales which have to do with the creation of the earth, the emergence, the flood, the slaying of monsters, and the origin of customs. As Goodwin was the first anthropologist to work with the White Mountain Apache, his insights remain a primary souce on this people.

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About the author

Grenville Goodwin's authorship in the late 1930s of The Social Organization of the Western Apache made him a major figure in North American ethnology by only scratched the surface of his profound knowledge of the Apache. A New Yorker by birth, Goodwin's understanding of Apache ways came not from schooling but from living over a period of eight years with the Apaches on the San Carlos Reservation. The keenness of his perceptions and his empathy with his subjects made him an authority and friend respected by both Apache tribal members and leading anthropologists the world over. In 1940, death interrupted Goodwin's plan to write a series of additional monographs on other aspects of Western Apache life.

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