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Face of the Fox

Frederick O. Gearing
1970

CONTENTS

1 Prologue 3
2 Games That Words Play 7
3 First Studies 29
4 The Big Impossible - Being a Man 51
5 Notes in the margin: On Viewing Alien Ways 65
6 Fox Social Structure 79
7 Community Paralysis and Its Cure 95
8 Notes in the Margin: Culture as Code 109
9 Postscript:The Fox View of the Fox Self 133
10 Three Anecdotes 149

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Priests and Warriors

Frederick O. Gearing
1962

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments vi
Introduction 1
   Part I. The Face-to-Face Community
Chapter 1  One Village: Four Village Structures 13
Chapter 2  The Cherokee Ethos 30
Chapter 3  Village Councils: Ethos Again 37
Chapter 4  War Organization 47
Chapter 5  A Bridge to the Individual 55
Chapter 6  Comparing Political Systems 70
   Part II. Beyond The Face-to-Face Community
Chapter 7  Peace Among Independent Equals: To 1730 79
Chapter 8  Toward a Tribal State: 1730-1761 85
Chapter 9  From Priests to Warriors: 1761-1775 99
Chapter 10  The Rise of Voluntary, Naive States 106

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