The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe.(Book review)

Publication: The Oral History Review

Publication Date: 22-JUN-06

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THE APACHE INDIANS: IN SEARCH OF THE MISSING TRIBE. By Helge Ingstad. Trans. Janine K. Stenehjem. With a Preface by Benedicte Ingstad and an introduction by Thomas J. Nevins. Gyldendal Norsk Forlad A/S, 1945; English edition, 2004. 186 pp.. Hardbound, $24.95.

Finally, the result of the late Norwegian ethnographer Helge Ingstad's research on Apache life and history has become more easily available for readers in the United States with the first English edition of this work. First published in 1945, the book is one of the most important early ethnographical works on Apache culture that we have. This first United States edition contains a Preface and an Introduction that frame the book nicely by placing Ingstad's findings in their historical context. Helge Ingstad's daughter, Benedicte, who wrote the Preface, explains the origins of this...

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