Items related to Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies: Enduring...

Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies: Enduring Veterans, 1800 to the Present - Softcover

 
9780292705180: Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies: Enduring Veterans, 1800 to the Present
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic Book For many Plains Indians, being a warrior and veteran has long been the traditional pathway to male honor and status. Men and boys formed military societies to celebrate victories in war, to perform community service, and to prepare young men for their role as warriors and hunters. By preserving cultural forms contained in song, dance, ritual, language, kinship, economics, naming, and other semireligious ceremonies, these societies have played an important role in maintaining Plains Indian culture from the pre-reservation era until today. In this book, Williams C. Meadows presents an in-depth ethnohistorical survey of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche military societies, drawn from extensive interviews with tribal elders and military society members, unpublished archival sources, and linguistic data. He examines their structure, functions, rituals, and martial symbols, showing how they fit within larger tribal organizations. And he explores how military societies, like powwows, have become a distinct public format for cultural and ethnic continuity.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
"Meadows combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and analysis of symbols to reconstruct the history and significance of the military societies of the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche tribes of southwestern Oklahoma. More important, he shows how these groups adapted in the twentieth century to provide each tribe with its own distinctive identity while serving as tools for social integration and enculturation at the same time."--Journal of American History

"Meadows produced a book that captures and records for all time the specifics of military society ceremonies, history and organization. In documenting and preserving these aspects of Indian life, he created a work valuable not just to anthropologists but to native preservationists as well."--Whispering Wind

"Because of the book's descriptive content, readers interested in the clothing, songs, dances, recruitment strategies, and symbols used by the various military societies recognized by the Comanches, Apaches, and Kiowas will find this work incredibly useful."--Journal of Military History

"This book deserves praise, especially for the author's own fieldwork and thorough use of the Native voice in depicting the multifaceted roles these sodalities played in Southern Plains Indian cultures."--Western Historical Quarterly

"This is a good book, detailed, scholarly, and clearly presented. . . . The importance of [the author's] fieldwork cannot be overemphasized. The research is solid. The author used important, and some long-forgotten, archival manuscripts and the best linguistic data available."--Military History of the West
Synopsis:
For many Plains Indians, being a warrior and veteran has long been the traditional pathway to male honor and status. Men and boys formed military societies to celebrate victories in war, to perform community service, and to prepare young men for their role as warriors and hunters. By preserving cultural forms contained in song, dance, ritual, language, kinship, economics, naming, and other semireligious ceremonies, these societies have played an important role in maintaining Plains Indian culture from the pre-reservation era until today.In this book, William C. Meadows presents an in-depth ethnohistorical survey of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche military societies, drawn from extensive interviews with tribal elders and military society members, unpublished archival sources, and linguistic data. He examines their structure, functions, rituals, and martial symbols, showing how they fit within larger tribal organizations. And he explores how military societies, like powwows, have become a distinct public format for cultural and ethnic continuity. Also of interest is "The Comanche Code talkers of World War II" by William C. Meadows 2002 0-292-75274-1.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0292705182
  • ISBN 13 9780292705180
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages527

Shipping: £ 4.50
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Add to Basket

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780292752122: Kiowa, Apache and Comanche Military Societies: Enduring Veterans, 1800 to the Present

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780292752122
Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1999
Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

William C. Meadows
ISBN 10: 0292705182 ISBN 13: 9780292705180
New paperback Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Blackwell's
(Oxford, OX, United Kingdom)

Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9780292705180

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 42.19
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 4.50
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Meadows, William C.
Published by University of Texas Press (2002)
ISBN 10: 0292705182 ISBN 13: 9780292705180
New Softcover Quantity: 5
Seller:
GreatBookPrices
(Columbia, MD, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 960224-n

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 46.70
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 2.09
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Meadows, William C.
Published by University of Texas Press (2002)
ISBN 10: 0292705182 ISBN 13: 9780292705180
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Front Cover Books
(Denver, CO, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0292705182

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 45.38
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 3.41
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Meadows, William C.
Published by University of Texas Press (2002)
ISBN 10: 0292705182 ISBN 13: 9780292705180
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0292705182

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 46.07
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 2.77
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Meadows, William C.
Published by University of Texas Press (2002)
ISBN 10: 0292705182 ISBN 13: 9780292705180
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0292705182

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 45.68
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 3.17
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Meadows, William C.
Published by University of Texas Press (2002)
ISBN 10: 0292705182 ISBN 13: 9780292705180
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GF Books, Inc.
(Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition. Seller Inventory # 0292705182-2-1

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 49.23
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Meadows, William C.
ISBN 10: 0292705182 ISBN 13: 9780292705180
New Paperback or Softback Quantity: 5
Seller:
BargainBookStores
(Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies: Enduring Veterans, 1800 to the Present 1.85. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780292705180

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 52.05
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Meadows, William C.
Published by University of Texas Press (2002)
ISBN 10: 0292705182 ISBN 13: 9780292705180
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Lucky's Textbooks
(Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Feb2215580092737

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 49.49
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 3.16
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Meadows, William C.
Published by University of Texas Press (2002)
ISBN 10: 0292705182 ISBN 13: 9780292705180
New Soft Cover Quantity: 10
Print on Demand
Seller:
booksXpress
(Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. This item is printed on demand. Seller Inventory # 9780292705180

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 55.13
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Meadows, William C.
Published by University of Texas Press (2002)
ISBN 10: 0292705182 ISBN 13: 9780292705180
New Softcover Quantity: 5
Seller:
GreatBookPricesUK
(Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 960224-n

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 42.18
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 15
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds

There are more copies of this book

View all search results for this book