The Cahuilla

The Cahuilla

Author: Lowell John Bean

Publisher: Facts On File

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555466930

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Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Cahuilla Indians.


Mukat's People

Mukat's People

Author: Lowell J. Bean

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1974-08-20

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780520026278

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From the Introduction by Lowell J. Bean:An apparent dichotomy exists in scientific circles concerning the role of religion and belief systems and a similar dichotomy exists among anthropological theorists. Two assumptions seem to prevail: ritual and world view are more ecologically nonadaptive than adaptive; or ritual and world view are more ecologically adaptive than they are nonadaptive. To examine the relevancy of the opposing theoretical views I will develop hypotheses concerning a particular culture, the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California, which will be used as a test case. I will present two sets of hypotheses which logically follow from each of the assumptions. From the first assumption I suggest that the economic needs of society are impeded by ritual actions which are not only wasteful of productive goods but decrease the production of goods; they take people away from productive activities because of ritual obligations: and . from the second I suggest that the economic needs of society are impeded by normative and existential postulates (for definition see page 16o) which indicate that valuable resources are outside the realm of the economic order; these postulates are disruptive to the production of goods by encouraging people to behave in such a way that they are taken away from productive activity. From this latter viewpoint two other hypotheses follow: the ecoiwmic needs of society are facilitated by ritual action which conserves and increases the production of goods and fosters productive activity by directing personnel toward producing activities; and the economic needs of society are facilitated by normative and existential postulates which foster the use of valuable economic resources and increase the productive process by directing behavior which involves people in productive activities. The validity of the hypotheses will be tested by asking specific questions related to the hypotheses. The questions are:Were goods wasted because of ritual action? Did ritual action take people away from productive activities or did it direct people to produce more goods? Were valuable resources placed outside the realm of economic order by existential postulates? Did normative postulates disrupt the production of goods by rewarding behavior which took people away from productive activity? Or did it reward behavior which fostered the production of goods? Additional questions are: Did ritual and world view encourage the full and rational use of the Cahuilla environment? Did ritual and world view aid in adjusting man-land ratios? Did ritual and world view support a social structure and organization which was adaptive to an environmental base? Did ritual and world view support institutions that were adaptive, such as law, property concepts, warfare, and games? Did ritual and world view have regulatory functions? Did ritual and world view stimulate or facilitate the distribution of economic goods from one part of the system to another? Did ritual and world view limit the frequency and extent of conflict over valuable resources?


You Can't Eat Dirt

You Can't Eat Dirt

Author: Vyola J. Ortner

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 9780615495590

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Tells the story of Ortner's tenures as vice chairman, from 1952 to 1954, and chairman, from 1954 to early 1959, of the Tribal Council for the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Palm Springs, California, leading the first all-women tribal council in the United States.


Stories and Legends of the Palm Springs Indians

Stories and Legends of the Palm Springs Indians

Author: Francisco Patencio

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2020-03-05

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1839743131

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Chief Francisco Patencio recounts the stories and legends of his people in this slim, but, invaluable record of the Palm Springs Native Americans. Originally published in 1943 by the Palm Springs Desert Museum, the tales and traditions of the Cahuilla are kept alive in the new edition.


Land Allotments on Agua Caliente Reservation, California

Land Allotments on Agua Caliente Reservation, California

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Publisher:

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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Committee Serial No. 17. Considers legislation to equalize the land allotments on Agua Caliente Reservation and to establish a tribal corporation for the disposition of reservation lands. Hearing was held in Palm Springs, Calif.