Produktbild
Ruth M. Underhill

Rainhouse and Ocean: Speeches for the Papago Year

Buch

The Tohono O'odham of southern Arizona, formerly known as the Papago, have made a life in a place that many would consider uninhabitable. These desert people were converted to Catholicism by early Spanish missionaries, yet they retain much of their earlier lifeway as a means of continuing adaptation to their desert environment. This book is a restudy of speeches and ritual information collected by anthropologist Underhill beginning in 1931 and published in her book Papago Indian Religion (1946). It describes the Native--as opposed to the Christian--side of the yearly ritual cycle of the Tohono O'odham, showing how seven rites form a system of… Mehr

CHF 26.90

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

Produktdetails


Weitere Autoren: Bahr, Donald M. / Lopez, Baptisto
  • ISBN: 978-0-8165-1774-9
  • EAN: 9780816517749
  • Produktnummer: 1622131
  • Verlag: Univ Of Arizona Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
  • Seitenangabe: 153 S.
  • Masse: H22.3 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.9 cm 204 g
  • Auflage: 2. A.
  • Gewicht: 204

Über den Autor


Anthropologist Donald M. Bahr has studied the Tohono O'odham extensively.

3 weitere Werke von Ruth M. Underhill:


Bewertungen


0 von 0 Bewertungen

Geben Sie eine Bewertung ab!

Teilen Sie Ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Produkt mit anderen Kunden.