Tipai Ethnographic Notes: A Baja California Indian Community at Mid-century
- ISBN-10
- 0879191449
- ISBN-13
- 9780879191443
- Category
- Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
- Pages
- 378
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- SCERP and IRSC publications
- Author
- William D. Hohenthal
Description
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 bandw map. Hohenthal taught anthropology at San Francisco State University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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