Rainhouse and Ocean: Speeches for the Papago Year
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…
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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
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Anthropologist Donald M. Bahr has studied the Tohono O'odham extensively.
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