Tipai ethnographic notes : a Baja California Indian community at mid-century /
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| Author / Creator: | Hohenthal, William D., 1919- |
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| Imprint: | Navato, CA : Ballena Press, c2001. |
| Description: | xxi, 378 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. + 1 folded map (54 x 41 cm.). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ballena Press anthropological papers no. 48 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4460422 |
| Summary: | Presents a first-hand ethnographic description of Tipai/Diegueno communities of northern Baja California during the late 1940s, with information on tribes and clans, settlements, subsistence, material culture, social life, government, religious beliefs and practices, and healing. This work is of interest as a compendium of ethnographic data and as a primary historical source regarding the creation of knowledge in American cultural anthropology. Includes a separate b&w map. Hohenthal taught anthropology at San Francisco State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
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| Item Description: | "A cooperative publication of Ballena Press and the Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias." |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 378 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. + |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-369) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0879191457 0879191449 |