Charles E. Apekaum

Gebundenes Buch

Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian

Beschreibung

Anthropologist Benjamin R. Kracht presents one of the few Kiowa autobiographies in publication—the life narrative of Charles E. Apekaum of the Kiowa Nation of Oklahoma, whose services as a translator were sought by many.  

Autor

Charles E. Apekaum (ca. 1890) was born during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation. He served as interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935, among many other jobs as a translator. Weston La Barre was an anthropologist best known for his work on traditional uses of plants in Native American religions and use of psychoanalysis in ethnography. He is the author of The Peyote Cult, a landmark work in psychological anthropology. Benjamin R. Kracht is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He is the editor of Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family by Henrietta Tongkeamha and Raymond Tongkeamha (Nebraska, 2021) and the author of Kiowa Belief and Ritual (Nebraska, 2017), among other books.  

Produktdetails

• American Indian Lives
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781496243188
• ISBN-10: 1496243188
• Artikelnr.: 71565429