Tipai Ethnographic Notes: A Baja California Indian Community at Mid Century (Formerly Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No. 48)

Presents a first-hand ethnographic description of Tipai/Diegue o communities of northern Baja California during the late 1940s, with information on tribes and clans, settlements, subsistence, material culture, social life, government, religious beliefs and practices, and healing. This work is of interest as a compendium of ethnographic data and as a primary historical source regarding the creation of knowledge in American cultural anthropology. Includes a separate b&w map. Hohenthal taught anthropology at San Francisco State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)