Indeterminacy and history in Britton Goode's Western Apache placenames: Ambiguous identity on the San Carlos Apache reservation

American Ethnologist

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 277-302

  Samuels, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Identity; Language and culture; Placenames; Verbal art; Western apache

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035534184     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2001.28.2.277     Document Type: Article

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