| Included Work | Basehart, Harry W. Resource holding corporation among the Mescalero Apache. |
| Included Work | Basehart, Harry W. Mescalero Apache subsistence patterns and socio-political organization. |
| Included Work | Basehart, Harry W. Mescalero Apache band organization and leadership. |
| Included Work | Farrer, Claire R. Culture summary, Mescalero Apache. |
| Included Work | Farrer, Claire R. Play and inter-ethnic communication. |
| Included Work | Farrer, Claire R. Living life's circle. |
| Included Work | Flannery, Regina. Position of woman among the Mescalero Apache. |
| Included Work | Nicholas, Dan. Mescalero Apache girls' puberty ceremony. |
| Included Work | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996. Apache odyssey, a journey between two worlds. |
| Included Work | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996. Slaying of the monsters, a Mescalero Apache myth. |
| Included Work | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996. Reaction to death among the Mescalero Apache. |
| Included Work | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996. Influence of aboriginal pattern and White contact on a recently introduced ceremony, the Mescalero peyote rite. |
| Included Work | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996. Mescalero Apache. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. North America. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
The resource holding corporation among the Mescalero Apache ; Mescalero Apache band organization and leadership / Harry W. Basehart -- Mescalero Apache subsistence patterns and socio-political organization / [by] Harry W. Basehart. Commission findings on the Apache -- Apache odyssey, a journey between two worlds / Morris E. Opler -- Culture Summary, Mescalero Apache ; Living life's circle, Mescalero Apache cosmovision / Claire R. Farrer -- Play and inter-ethnic communication, a practical ethnography of the Mescalero Apache / Claire Rafferty Farrer -- The position of woman among the Mescalero Apache / Regina Flannery -- Mescalero Apache girls' puberty ceremony / Dan Nicholas -- The slaying of the monsters, a Mescalero Apache myth ; Reaction to death among the Mescalero Apache ; The influence of aboriginal pattern and White contact on a recently introduced ceremony, the Mescalero peyote rite / Morris Edward Opler -- Mescalero Apache / Morris E. Opler. |
| Scope and content |
This collection of 13 documents, all in English, cover the time span from approximately 1540 to the late 1980s. Documents which provide a general summary of Mescalero culture history and ethnography are Opler, and the last section of Farrer's work. The three studies by Basehart provide information on social and political organization, leadership, and subsistence patterns. Dealing with the more metaphysical concepts of Mescalero society are the works by Farrer. She discusses Mescalero concepts of space, time, and sound and the way they communicate meaning and order within the culture. The second study by Farrer, describes native concepts of cosmology, ethnoastronomy, and the relationship between celestial phenomena and the environment. Other ethnographic topics in this collection include: shamanism and supernatural power; mythology associated with the birth of the culture hero, Child-of-the Water; Mescalero beliefs and practices related to death; and peyote ceremonialism. The study by Nicholas of the girls' puberty ceremony gives a general account of this ceremony, and is supplemented in greater detail by Farrer. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Nov. 3, 2011). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2010 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file, Mescalero. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
