Self, Family, and Community in White Mountain Apache Society

Abstract

dance that was part of the festivities for a girl's puberty ceremony. As I drove, their daughter,julie, who was nine or ten at the time, became upset that we were .going home, and for whatever reason she wanted to return to the dance, which was now five or so miles to the rear.·She became more and more vocal until eventually her father, tired of her petulance, asked me to stop the car. I expected a major show of force, but instead he opened the door and let her out on the dark, deserted road. He then gave her some change that, in her anger at not having been appeased sooner, she dashed into the dust as she stomped offback in the direction from which we hadjust come. He then calmly.said, Drive on.