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Book Cover for: Western Apache Witchcraft: Volume 15, Keith H. Basso

Western Apache Witchcraft: Volume 15

Keith H. Basso

An ethnographic contribution describing the beliefs and ideas associated with witchcraft as shared knowledge that the Apaches have about their universe. Uncovers the types of interpersonal relationships with which witchcraft accusations are regularly associated and posits explanations for these associations.

Book Details

  • Publisher: University of Arizona Press
  • Publish Date: May 1st, 1969
  • Pages: 80
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0002
  • Dimensions: 11.02in - 8.28in - 0.26in - 0.56lb
  • EAN: 9780816501427
  • Categories: Witchcraft (See Also Religion - Wicca)Native American Studies

About the Author

Keith Basso is University Regents Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Cibecue Apache; Portraits of the 'Whiteman' Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache; and other books and monographs dealing with aspects of the relationship between language and culture.

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