Helge Ingstad

The Apache Indians

In Search of the Missing Tribe
Übersetzer: Stenehjem, Janine K

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tells the story of the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad's sojourn among the Apaches near the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona and his epic journey to locate the "lost" group of their brethren in the Sierra Madres in the 1930s

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780803271852
• ISBN-10: 0803271859
• Artikelnr.: 36470221

Autorenporträt

After practicing law for four years, then selling his practice for "fear of becoming rich," Helge Ingstad (1899-2001) became a self-taught ethnographer, historian, and world-renowned explorer. He is the author of the best-selling Land of Feast and Famine and coauthor (with Anne Stine Ingstad) of The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Benedicte Ingstad is the daughter of Helge Ingstad. Thomas J. Nevins is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  vii
Preface by Benedicte Ingstad  ix
Introduction by Thomas J. Nevins  xvii
 
1. The Long Migration  1
2. San Carlos  11
3. White Mountain  21
4. Glimpse of the Old and the New  35
5. Dance and Prayer  45
6. Apache Cowboy Life on the White Mountain Reservation  59
7. An Expedition Is Planned  77
8. South into Mexico  91
9. Through the Western Sierra Madre  103
10. Nacori Chico  119
11. Through the Heart of the Sierra Madre  129
12. Dramatic Christmas  147
13. Cave Country  155
14. Prisoners from the Wilderness  171
 
Notes  183
Bibliography  187