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Childhood and youth in Jicarilla Apache society. by Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"This book is meant to fulfill a double function. It is the first of two volumes which together will describe aboriginal Jicarilla culture, and it therefore belongs to the series of studies in which I am presenting and comparing the former ways of life of a number of Apache tribes. Because it is arranged in terms of the life cycle and because it carries the Jicarilla only to the threshold of marriage, it constitutes a study of child development and child training, as well. Since this is a reconstruction of aboriginal Jicarilla culture and not an acculturation study (I plan to publish my acculturation material separately), it is not an analysis of a particular group of children. Individual character delineations and personality differences emerge from the material, to be sure, but the emphais throughout is on the means and mechanisms by which the culture trains and mods its young. As a result there evolves an account of the convictions, practices, and ideals which the culture approves for its carriers, the manner and order in which they are set before the young, the persons and groups who share the responsibility for conveying and instilling these values, the techniques employed, an

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Author

Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996.

Publisher

[The Southwest Museum], 1946.

Published

1946

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction