The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache

Name: The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache
Brand: Texas A&M University Press
SKU: 07167606

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7551689The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apachehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-handgame-of-the-kiowa--comanche--and-apache-9781648432965/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7172369/image.jpg?v=638842823449600000369513MXNTexas A&M University PressInStock/Ebooks/The North American handgame has a long lineage, attested in the myth, oral traditions, and archaeological records of Native American people. In The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spirited Competition on the Southern Plains, noted scholar William C. Meadows examines the games history, evolution, and practice from origin accounts to the present day among people of the Southern Plains American Indian nations.According to Meadows, the handgame, once primarily a source of winter recreation, now includes round-robin tournaments as well as public school and university teams. In fact, it has evolved to occupy an important social arena in Native American life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and the authors own participation since the early 1990s, the book also incorporates extensive archival research in ethnographic, archaeological, and historical sources.Examining such topics as the handgames relation to language, gender roles, economics, and tribal sovereignty, Meadows argues that the game is just as important in tribal contexts as other more widely known activities such as powwows, dances, sweat lodges, and stickball in maintaining American Indian culture and ethnicity. The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache affords readers a greater sense of how this traditional game has developed, how its practitioners feel about it, how it is played, and why it is, in the words of the author, so spirited, popular, and infectious as an activity....7167606The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache369513https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-handgame-of-the-kiowa--comanche--and-apache-9781648432965/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7172369/image.jpg?v=638842823449600000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259781648432965_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9781648432965_The North American handgame has a long lineage, attested in the myth, oral traditions, and archaeological records of Native American people. In The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spirited Competition on the Southern Plains, noted scholar William C. Meadows examines the games history, evolution, and practice from origin accounts to the present day among people of the Southern Plains American Indian nations.According to Meadows, the handgame, once primarily a source of winter recreation, now includes round-robin tournaments as well as public school and university teams. In fact, it has evolved to occupy an important social arena in Native American life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and the authors own participation since the early 1990s, the book also incorporates extensive archival research in ethnographic, archaeological, and historical sources.Examining such topics as the handgames relation to language, gender roles, economics, and tribal sovereignty, Meadows argues that the game is just as important in tribal contexts as other more widely known activities such as powwows, dances, sweat lodges, and stickball in maintaining American Indian culture and ethnicity. The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache affords readers a greater sense of how this traditional game has developed, how its practitioners feel about it, how it is played, and why it is, in the words of the author, so spirited, popular, and infectious as an activity....9781648432965_Texas A&M University Presslibro_electonico_9781648432965_9781648432965William C.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/texas_am-epub-b920de34-b215-464c-ba99-64d074f7c43a.epub2025-05-30T00:00:00+00:00Texas A&M University Press