Oklahoma: Kiowa Military Societies: Ethnohistory And Ritual

Oklahoma: Kiowa Military Societies: Ethnohistory And Ritual William C. Meadows   2010   University of Oklahoma Press   William C. Meadows’ book represents the last significant ethnographical work to result from over twenty years of anthropological observation among the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache. The presented case-study of these indigenous military societies focuses on their strong martial ethos and warrior culture that preserves peculiar and secular social sodalities over time. Because...

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