 | Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie Subjects: Comanche Indians -- History -- Sources; Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Great Plains; Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Southwest New; Hoebel E. Adamson (Edward Adamson) 1906–1993; Wedel Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph) 1908–1996; Carlson Gustav G.; Lowie Robert Harry ; In the summer of 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma, a team of six anthropologists met with eighteen Comanche elders to record the latterOCOs reminiscences of traditional Comanche culture. The depth and breadth of what the elderly Comanches recalled provides an inestimable source of knowledge for generations to come, both within and beyond the Comanche community. This monumental volume makes available for the first time the largest archive of traditional cultural information on Comanches ever gathered by American anthropologists." Thomas W. Kavanagh is an assistant professor of anthropology and a museum administrator at Seton Hall University. He is also the Consulting Anthropologist of the Comanche Nation and the author of North American Indian Portraits: Photographs from the Wanamaker Expeditions and The Comanches: A History, 1706--1875 , the latter available in a Bison Books edition. |
