Description
Product ID: | 9781496232656 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians |
Title: | Kiowa Belief and Ritual |
Authors: | Author: Benjamin R. Kracht |
Page Count: | 404 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Indigenous peoples, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
Description: | Benjamin Kracht’s Kiowa Belief and Ritual, a collection of materials gleaned from Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field notes and augmented by Alice Marriott’s field notes, significantly enhances the existing literature concerning Plains religions. Directed by anthropologist Alexander Lesser in 1935, the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology sponsored a field school in southwestern Oklahoma that focused on the neighboring Kiowas. During two months, graduate students compiled more than 1,300 pages of single-spaced field notes derived from cross-interviewing thirty-five Kiowas. These eyewitness and first-generation reflections on the horse and buffalo days are undoubtedly the best materials available for reconstructing pre-reservation Kiowa beliefs and rituals. The field school compiled massive data resulting in a number of publications on this formerly nomadic Plains tribe, though the planned collaborative ethnographies never materialized. The extensive Kiowa field notes, which contain invaluable information, remained largely unpublished until now. |
Imprint Name: | University of Nebraska Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Nebraska Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-12-01 |