Greenville Goodwin

Greenville Goodwin (1907 - 1940) is best known for his participant-observer ethnology work among the Western Apaches in the 1930s. He was born in Long Island, New York. He attended Mesa Ranch School in Arizona and that was the start of his relationship with the Southwest. He attended classes at University of Arizona and was influenced by Dean Cummings. Goodwin lost interest in earning a degree and moved to Bylas, AZ to be closer to the Apaches for his field work.

However he met and learned from many notable Anthropologists. He met Morris Opler in 1931 who was doing field work among the Chiricahuas. Harry Joijer coached him in linguistic transcription. By 1935 his first paper was published in American Anthropologist. Scudder McKeel who was a social anthropologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs ask Goodwin how to form San Carlos Apache government organization (still unpublished report cira 1937). He went to University of Chicago where he was a major contributor to "The Social Organization of the Western Apache".

He died in 1940 from complications of a brain tumor.

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References

Most of above was taken from "A Biographical Note", written by Edward H. Spicer that appears before the introduction in "Western Apache Raiding and Warfare".

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