The best-known work by the eccentric anthropologist Jaime de Angulo, Indians in Overalls is a fascinating account of his first linguistic field tripâin 1921âto the Achumawi tribe of northeastern California. The Pit River tribe had lived in the barren high country for thousands of years and, despite the harsh climate and difficult living conditions, they had developed an extraordinary complex language and a rich mythology.As he traveled with the tribe and learned the spoken language, he observed gambling games and shamanistic practices, and he collected some of the marvelous stories told around the fire in the winter lodges. Of all the people he worked with, he felt closest to the Achumawi, among whom he discovered “the spirit of wonder, the recognition of life as power.”

Indians in Overalls

Politics & Social Sciences

Jaime De Angulo

Social Sciences

City Lights Books

<p>Three pieces from the author's early work, four from his later work, and a Chronology. Praised by Ezra Pound and Carl O. Sauer.</p>

Jaime De Angulo Reader

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Turtle Island Foundation

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