Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache
Letters from the Field
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Anthropology; American Indians; Western Apaches; apache beliefs; apache customs; western Apache culture; New Mexico; Apachean cultures; comparison of cultures; culture comparison; American southwest; southern plains; anthropological theory; ethnography; american anthropologyISBN
9780816540754, 9780816504176, 9780816535378, 9780816540754Publisher
University of Arizona PressPublisher website
https://uapress.arizona.edu/Publication date and place
1973Imprint
University of Arizona PressSeries
Century Collection,Classification
Society and culture: general
Social and cultural anthropology
History of the Americas