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Magoffin, James, 15 , 161 -162

Magoffin, Samuel, 161

Magoffin, Susan Shelby: Down the Santa ire Trail and Into New Mexico,161 , 175 -176, 183 , 275

Malinowski, Bronislaw: Argonauts of the Western Pacific,136 -137

Mandan, 111

Manifest Destiny, 17 , 224 , 260

Männerbunde, 216

Marcy, William L., 162

Market economy: role of wealth in, 28

Martinez, Padre, 16 , 185 , 212

Marx, Karl, 38

Masons, 31 , 210 , 211 , 212 , 213 , 214

Material culture, 163 ;

and meaning, 164 -166;

ritualistic use of by modernizing societies, 186 -189

Mauss, Marcel, 28 , 221 ;

on exchange in traditional societies, 135 -136, 137 , 142 ;

The Gift, 135

Maya: concern with numbers and time, 43 , 45 ;

observation apparatus, 42 -43

McKinney, Thomas L., 144

Mechanical solidarity, 137 , 166 , 291n 13

Medicine pole (Sun Dance pole), 25 -26, 65 , 68 , 71 , 73 -74

Medicine wheels, 41 , 278 -280;

illustrated, 42 , 43

Mescalero Apache, 81

Metaphor, 163

Metis, 151 -152

Mexican War, 15 -16, 160 ;

comparison to Vietnam War, 20 ;

El Ninos[*] Heroicas, 160 ;

in New Mexico Territory, 15 , 18 , 160 -162

Mexico: indepcndence from Spain, 13 , 117 ;

relations with Plains Indians after independence, 120 -122;

revolt against


317

American occupation of New Mexico territory, 15 -16;

and Santa Fe Trail trade, 117 -119

Midewiwin, 64

Miller, Daniel: Material Culture and Mass Consumption,28

Milner, George R, 156

Miniconjous Sioux, 228 -229

Minnitaree: Treaty. of Fort Laramie, 227 -228

Missouri Company, 109

Missouri Fur Company, 13

Mitchell, D. D., 227

Modernism: debunking of myths, 6 , 281

Modernity: adoption of in New Mexico Territory, 18 -19, 128 , 219 , 252 ;

Bent's Old Fort as model of, 90 , 162 , 252 -253;

culture of, 166 ;

Sun Dance as response to alienation of, 78 -82

Modern societies: attempts to reclaim identity in, 45 ;

burden of, 45 ;

construction of reality in, 36 -37;

defined, 287n 31;

distinction between religion and ideology, 246 -247, 256 -257;

history as mythology in, 260 -261;

ideological basis in capitalism and individualism, 163 ;

obsession with time, 40 -41;

power of, 53 ;

relation to traditional societies, 77 ;

ritual in, 32 , 45 -49, 49 -51,197 -198, 281 -282, 283 ;

ritual use of material culture, 186 -189;

and romantic love, 52 -53;

surrogate royalty in, 24

Mooney, James, 74

Moore, Craig, 276

Moore, Jackson W., 191

Moore, Mary Bent, 237 , 243

Moore, R. M., 243

Mwali, 136

Mythology, 24 ;

of American creation, 3 ;

history as, 260 -261;

as realm of sacred, 36 ;

and ritual, 70 , 71 , 138 , 257


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