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Podcast: New Books in Latino Studies
Episode: Lance R. Blyth, âChiricahua and Janos: Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680-1880â (Nebraska UP, 2012)
Description: Most people today think of warâor really violence of any sortâas for the most part useless. Itâs better, we say, just to talk things out or perhaps buy our enemies off. And that usually works. But what if you lived in a culture where fighting was an important part of social status and earning a living? What if, say, you couldnât get married unless you had gone to war? What if, say, you couldnât feed your family without raiding your enemies? Such was the case with Chiricahua Apache of the Southwest. As Lance R. Blyth show...