Presents a first-hand ethnographic description of Tipai/Diegueno communities of northern Baja California during the late 1940s, with information on tribes and clans, settlements, subsistence, material culture, social life, government, religious beliefs and practices, and healing. This work is of interest as a compendium of ethnographic data and as a primary historical source regarding the creation of knowledge in American cultural anthropology. Includes a separate bandw map. Hohenthal taught anthropology at San Francisco State University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Notes from an Indian Conservative is a compilation of Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao's electric writings which regularly appear in The Indian Express. The book has been written for the 'Indians of today, both in India an in voluntary or involuntary exile who have a love for their fractured land and who have a sensibility derived from our adoption and embrace of the English language.