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In the late 1920s Grenville Goodwin, the anthropologist whose letters form the contents of this volume, embarked upon a longrange program of linguistic and ethnographic research among the Western Apache Indians of Arizona. Although Goodwin was not the first social scientist to become interested in t...
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| Published in | Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache p. 7 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University of Arizona Press
12.11.2019
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| Summary: | In the late 1920s Grenville Goodwin, the anthropologist whose letters form the contents of this volume, embarked upon a longrange program of linguistic and ethnographic research among the Western Apache Indians of Arizona. Although Goodwin was not the first social scientist to become interested in these people, he was unquestionably the most dedicated and thorough, and by the time of his death in 1940 he was intimately familiar with virtually every aspect of Western Apache culture.
Goodwin died prematurely at the age of thirty-three, having published only a few brief articles and a collection of Western Apache myths. Fortunately, he |
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| ISBN: | 0816504172 9780816504176 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctvss3xx8.3 |