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(More customer reviews)Dr. Kavanaugh has done a tremendous service in the area of Comanche ethnography by compiling and annotating the various notes of the Santa Fe team who interviewed Comanche informants in the 1930s. Hitherto, the literature on Comanche ethnography has suffered from basic lack of information, as the daily lives and customs of Buffalo Days Comanches has been sparsely documented. Of additional value is the use of so many Comanche language terms which can now be added to the lexicon being collected by Comanches seeking to revive and preserve their language. Though the informants were 1-2 generations removed from the Comanches of the Indian Wars Period, their data and reflections are the best we're ever likely to find for that period. The information in "Comanche Ethnography" will help correct errors and fill omissions in earlier works on the Comanche people and their history. I highly recommend this excellent work.
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In the summer of 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma, a team of six anthropologists met with eighteen Comanche elders to record the latter's 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.
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