| 2001 | "Who Owns the Words? An Anthropological Perspective on Public Law 101-601." In Implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Roxana Adams, ed. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, Technical Information Service, pp.126-133. |
| 2000 | "Centering: Lessons Learned from Mescalero Apaches." In Stumbling Toward Truth: Anthropologists at Work, Philip R. DeVita, ed. Prospect Heights, IL : Waveland Press, Inc., pp.142-153. (See also 1991a.) |
| 1997a | "Foreward" and "Study Guide" to Timothy P. McCleary's The Stars We Know: Crow Indian Astronomy and Lifeways. Prospect Heights, IL : Waveland Press, Inc., pp.xi-xv and 113-127 |
| b | "A 'Berdache' by Any Other Name...Is a Brother, Friend, Lover, Spouse: Reflections on a Mescalero Apache Singer of Ceremonies." In Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp.236-251. |
| c | "Words, Ceremonies, and Everyday Lives," Introduction to Part 5, Dealing with Homophobia in Everyday Life, in the book referenced under 1997b, pp.297-298. |
| d | "The Learner's View on Learning." (Written with Rik Pinxten.) In When the Day Breaks: Essays in Anthropology and Philosophy. Frankfort: Peter Lang, pp.99-117. |
| 1995 | "Turning the Storm." in Bridges to Humanity: Narratives on Anthropology and Friendship, Bruce Grindal and Frank Salamone, eds. Prospect Heights, IL : Waveland Press, Inc., pp.49-62. |
| 1994 | "On Learning and Tradition: A Comparative View," co-written with Rik Pinxten. In Sociogenisis Reexamined, Willibrord de Graff and Robert Maier, eds. New York: Springer-Verlag, Inc., pp.169-184. (Shortened revision of journal article 1990d, below.) |
| 1992a | "Going to Church." In Discovering the Alien: A Workbook in Cultural Anthropology. Paul Bohannan, ed. Prospect Heights, IL : Waveland Press, Inc., pp.122-123. |
| b | "Those Who Lived Before." In Basketmakers: Meaning and Form in Native American Baskets. Linda Mowat, Howard Morphy and Penny Dransart, eds. Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Monograph 5, pp.76-90. |
| c | "Play and Inter-Ethnic Communication." In Play, Leisure and Quality of Life: Social Scientific Perspectives. Maria T. Allison, ed. Dubuque, IA : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, pp.239-244. (Reprinting of 1976b.) |
| d | "Introduction: The Animating Breath." In Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore. Ray A. Williamson and Claire R. Farrer, eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp.1-24. (Williamson and Farrer authored this chapter.) |
| e | "Epilogue: Blue Archaeoastronomy." In Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore. Ray A. Williamson and Claire R. Farrer, eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp.278-289. (Farrer and Williamson authored this chapter.) |
| f | "'...by you they will know the directions to guide them': Stars and Mescalero Apaches." Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore. Ray A. Williamson and Claire R. Farrer, eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp.67-74. |
| 1991a | "Centering: Lessons Learned from Mescalero Apaches." In The Naked Anthropologist: Tales from Around the World. Philip R. DeVita, ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, pp.79-89. |
| b | "Response to Eleanor Leacock's 'Women's Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution'." In Inquiry and Debate in the Human Sciences: Contributions from Current Anthropology. Sydel Silverman, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp.241-241. (Reissue of 1978b.) |
| 1990 | "Coming of Age." In Indians of New Mexico. Richard C. Sandoval and Ree Sheck, eds. Santa Fe: New Mexico Magazine, pp.108-115 (with Bernard Second, my primary Apachean consultant, as co-author.) |
| 1989a | "Star-Walking: The Preliminary Report." In World Archaeoastronomy. Anthony F. Aveni, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.483-489. |
| b | "Singing for Life: The Mescalero Apache Girls' Puberty Ceremony." In Southwestern Indian Ritual Drama. Charlotte J. Frisbie, ed. Prospect Heights, IL : Waveland Press, Inc., pp.125-159. (Reissue of 1980a.) |
| 1988 | "The Folklorist and Linguistics: From Boas to Hymes." In The American Folklore Society, 100 Years. William M. Clements, ed. Washington, D.C.: The American Folklore Society, pp.58-59. |
| 1987 | "Singing for Life." In Betwixt & Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation. Louise Carus Mahdi, Steven Foster, and Meredith Little, eds. Open Court Publishing Co., pp.239-263. (Revision of 1980a.) |
| 1983 | "Play and Inter-Ethnic Communication." In Play, Games, & Sports in Cultural Contexts, Janet C. Harris and Roberta J. Parks, eds. Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc., pp.453-460. (Reprint of journal article, 1973a.) |
| 1981a | "Contesting." In Play and Context. Alyce T. Cheska, ed. West Point, NY : Leisure Press, pp.195-208. |
| b | "Living the Sky: Aspects of Mescalero Apache Ethnoastronomy." In Archaeoastronomy in the Americas. Ray A. Williamson, ed. Los Altos, CA : Ballena Press, pp.137-150. (Bernard Second, primary Apachean consultant, listed as co-author.) |
| 1980a | "Singing for Life: The Mescalero Girls' Puberty Ceremony." In Southwestern Indian Ritual Drama. Charlotte J. Frisbie, ed. Albuquerque and Santa Fe: University of New Mexico Press and The School of American Research, Advanced Seminar Series, pp.125-159. |
| b | Reprinting of 1976b; same editors and press but pp.98-104. |
| 1979 | "Aesthetics and Native North Americans." In Forms of Play of Native North Americans. Edward Norbeck and Claire R. Farrer, eds. St. Paul, MN : West Publishing Company for the American Ethnological Society; 1977 Selected Proceedings, pp.111-129. |
| 1976a | "Women and Folklore: Images and Genres." In Women and Folklore. Claire R. Farrer, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp.v-xv. (Re-issue of 1975 special issue of Jrl. of Am. Folklore.) |
| b | "Play and Inter-Ethnic Communication." In The Anthropological Study of Play: Problems and Prospects, David F. Lancy and B. Allan Tindall, eds. Cornwall, NY: Leisure Press, pp.86-92. |
| In Press | ìFolklore.îFor The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology edited by David Levinson and Melvin Ember. To be published by Henry Holt Reference Books and The Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. |
| 1998a | ìCosmology.î In Folkore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art. Vol. 1. Thomas A. Green, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 146-7. |
| b | ìMyth.î In Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art. Vol. 2. Thomas A. Green, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 575-581. |
| 1991a | ìMescalero Apache.î In Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. I: North America. Timothy J. OíLeary and David Levinson, eds. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall & Co., pp.222-225. |
| b | ìLipan Apache.î In Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. I: North America. Timothy J. OíLeary and David Levinson, eds. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall & Co., pp. 207-208. |
| 1990 | ìFolklore and Women.î In Womenís Studies Encyclopedia , Vol. II: Literature, Arts, and Learning. Helen Tierney, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 128-131. |
| NB: The Mescalero Apache people require that either they or I hold copyright on anything I write about them. Therefore, it is difficult to publish in most journals, including all those affiliated with the American Anthropological Association, as they will not allow an author to copyright her/his own work. |
| 1999 | ìThe Anthropologist and the Shaman.î Acta Americana 7:2:87-94. (Special Issue: 20th American Indian Workshop, Lund University, April 26-28, 1999. Journal of the Swedish Americanist Society.) |
| 1996 | ìBloed en Paarden: Culturele Evenementen in BelgiëóEen Antropologische Analyse van een Vreemde Cultuur.î Cultuur en Migratie 14:1:25-32. (Special issue of a Belgian peer-reviewed journal guest edited by G. M.-F. Cammaert; mine was an invited contribution.) |
| 1995 | ìOn Singers and Lineages: Response to Rushforth.î American Ethnologist 22:610-611. |
| 1994a | ìWho Owns The Words?: An Anthropological Perspective on Public Law 101-601.î Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 23:317-326. |
| b | ìMescalero Apache Ethnoastronomy: Problems and Praxis.î Archaeoastronomy XI, 1989-1993:57-63. (Second author is Gene Ammarell.) |
| 1993 | ìEthnoastronomy.î Archaeoastronomy & Ethnoastronomy News No. 7:1 and 4. |
| 1992a | ìEthical Reflections on Health and Illness, 6-11 October 1991, SION Foundation, Maarssen, The Netherlands.î European Review of Native American Studies 6(1):55-56. |
| b | ìLiving Names and Dead Traditions: Commentary on Indeh Review.î Journal of American Folklore 105:342-343. |
| 1991 | ìResponseî to Pinxten. Cultural Dynamics 4:95-97. |
| 1990a | ìHonors Anthropology and the Four Rís.î In ìStrategies for Teaching Anthropology,î Paul A. Erickson and Patricia C. Rice, eds.of special issue of Anthropology and Education Quarterly 21:134-140. |
| b | ìThe Sunís in its Heaven, Allís Not Right with the World: Rejoinder to Swan.î American Indian Quarterly 14:155-159. |
| c | ìReprise of Swanís Song and Farrerís Chorus.î American Indian Quarterly 14:167-171. |
| d | ìOn LearningóA Comparative View.î Cultural Dynamics 3:233-251. (Co-authored with Rik Pinxten.) |
| 1988a | ìWomen: A Selected Bibliography from the Journal of American Folklore, 1888-1988.î Folklore Womenís Communication #s 44 & 45, October 1988. (NB: first published in 1973 with Susan Kalcik, second author covering the years from 1888 to 1973; 1974-1988 prepared by Nancy P. Michael and Nancy J. Nusz.) |
| b | ìStar Clocks: Mescalero Apache Ceremonial Timing.î Cosmos 4:223-236, in special issue, ìAmerindian Cosmology.î Don McCaskill, ed. (Published in Edinburgh, Scotland; see also 1987 b.) |
| 1987a | ìOn Parables, Questions, and Predictions.î In ìParables of the Space Age.î M. Jane Young, ed., Western Folklore 46:281-293. |
| b | ìStar Clocks: Mescalero Apache Ceremonial Timing.î The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 7:223-236 in a special issue, ìAmerindian Cosmology,î Don McCaskill, ed. (See also 1988 c.) |
| c | ìAmplification: The Death of Henrietta Schmerler.î In ìPast Is Presentî section of Anthropology Newsletter 28(1):3-4. |
| d | ìThe 1931 Mescalero Apache Field Project: Review and Response in Reconstructing the Past.î In ìPast Is Presentî section of Anthropology Newsletter 28(5):3. |
| 1986a | ìLooking through the Mirror of Life.î Parabola 11(2):70-73. (Bernard Second, my primary Apachean consultant, listed as co-author.) |
| b | ìMescalero Apache Terminology for Venus.î Archaeoastronomy 9:59-61. |
| c | ìSymposium Report of Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore.î Archaeoastronomy 9:6-11. (Co-authoredwith Ray A.Williamson; Farrer responsible for pages 6 and 9-11.) |
| 1984 | CA* Comment on ìThe Thick and the Thinî by Paul Shankman. Current Anthropology 25:273-274. |
| 1983 | ìSynchrony in Play.î Newsletter, The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play 9(2):13. |
| 1980 | ìMescalero Apaches and Ethnoastronomy.î Archaeoastronomy 3(1):20. |
| 1979 | ìOn the Producers of Folk Artî. Journal of American Folklore 92:76-77. |
| 1978a | ìMescalero Ritual Dance: A Four Part Fugue.î Discovery 1978:1-13. |
| b | CA* Comment on ìWomen's Status in Egalitarian Society" by Eleanor Leacock. Current Anthropology 19:260-261. |
| 1976 | ìFieldwork Ethics.î Folklore Forum, Bibliographic and Special Series 9(15):59-63. |
| 1975 | ìWomen and Folklore: Issues and Genres.î Journal of American Folklore 88:v-xv. |
| 1973a | ìWomen: A Selected Bibliography from the Journal of American Folklore, 1888-1973.î Folklore Feminists Communication 1(1):12-28. (Senior author with Susan J. Kalcik as second author.) |
| b | ìThe Performances of Mescalero Apache Clowns.î Folklore Annual 4&5:135-151. |
| 2001a | Style Guide for Undergraduate Students.California State University, Chico: Anthropology Department. |
| b | Graduate Student Handbook of the Department of Anthropology, 2nd. ed.. California State University, Chico; Anthropology Department. |
| 1999 | Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Handbook. California State Univeristy, Chico: Anthropology Department. |
| 1982 | 1931 Cylinders/Tapes Recorded at Mescalero, New Mexico. Typescript for scholarly reference; 7 pp. of Introduction and 28 pp. of index and commentary. Copies at the School of American Research (owners of the cylinders), the American Philosophical Society, Library of Congress, Mescalero Apache Tribe, and the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico. (Information from this monograph was subsequently published in The Federal Cylinder Project: A Guide to Field Cylinder Collections in Federal Agencies, Volume 5óCalifornia IndianCatalog, Middle and South AmericanIndian Catalog, Southwestern Indian Catalog-I . Judith A. Gray and Edwin J. Schupman, Jr., eds. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, 1990. |
| 1977 | Play and Inter-ethnic Communication: A Practical Ethnography of the Mescalero Apache. Ph.D. Dissertation. (Published as book; see 1990.) |
| 1975 | Graded Supplementary Reading Materials for the Children of the Bent-Mescalero School, twenty-four stories written for grade levels 3-6; printed and distributed by the Mescalero Apache Tribe for their exclusive use. 100 6"x9" MS pages; Ignatius Palmer, Tribal artist, illus. |
| 1974 | Masterís Thesis: Performances of Mescalero Apache Clowns. |
| 1972 | Folklore Feminists Communication co-editor and co-founder (with Rosan Jordan deCaro and Susan J. Kalcik) of this continuing journal whose name was changed in 1978 to Folklore Womenís Communication. |
| 1995 | Photograph of Mescalero Apache girl during puberty ceremony featured in Witte Museum (San Antonio, TX) exhibition, ìRites of Passage.î |
| 1992 | ìRunning to Destinyî photograph selected (in juried competition) for Eighth Annual CSU-C Photo Show: Letís CelebrateóFestivals in American Life. |
| 1991 | ìSounds out of Timeî poem in Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 16:71-2. |
| 1985 | Folk Artists of East Central Illinois, humanist/folklorist consultant for this documentary of three central Illinois folk artists. Produced and distributed by WEIU TV, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL. (30 min., color; VHS 1/2" and 16mm with optical sound. |
| 1981 | The Knights of Santiago (Los Caballeros de Santiago), ethnographic consultant for Hispanic folk drama film. Bruce Lane, producer/director, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Mexico Arts Division; color, 16mm, optical sound. |
| 1978 | Women in American Folklore ; cassette lecture for Everett/Edwards, Inc., Deland, FL for the series, ìAmerican Folkloreî. |
| 1977 | Tongues of Man , BBC 2-part program on language and culture; appeared doing linguistic fieldwork on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. First aired in Great Britain in 1977 and in this country in 1978 on ìNova.î |
| 1975 | Geronimo's Children , BBC ìHorizonî series; ethnographic consultant/translator/on-camera narrator. Michael Barnes, producer/director; film on contemporary Mescalero Apache Indians; 16mm, 55 min.; optical sound. |
| Additionally, I have made super8, sound-synched. films of the Mescalero Apaches (play, ritual, and social occasions); however, these have not been released at Tribal Council request. My 35mm photographs have been published in a variety of texts, trade books, magazines, and newspapers. And I have appeared on television and radio discussing a variety of anthropological and folkloristic topics. |