184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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In The Face of the Fox, an anthropological and sociological study of the Fox American Indians (the Mesquakie, their actual tribal name) who live just outside Tama, Iowa, Frederick Gearing puts a face on the peoples of this tribe. In doing so, Gearing particularly deals with the estrangement of the Fox Indians and the Westerners surrounding them. He defines the concept of estrangement as including... Read more
I: Prologue; 2: Games That Words Play; 3: First Studies; 4: The Big Impossible—Being a Man; 5: Notes in the Margin: On Viewing Alien Ways; 6: Fox Social Structure; 7: Community Paralysis and Its Cure; 8: Notes in the Margin: Culture as Code; 9: Postscript : The Fox View of the Fox Self; 10: Three Anecdotes
Biography
Frederick O. Gearing
