Elsie Clews Parsons

Pueblo Indian Religion, Volume 2

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The rich religious beliefs and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico were first synthesized and compared by ethnologist Elsie Clews Parsons. Prodigious research and a quarter-century of fieldwork went into her 1939 encyclopedic two-volume work, Pueblo Indian Religion. The author gives an integrated picture of the complex religious and social life in the pueblos, including Zuni, Acoma, Laguna, Taos, Isleta, Sandia, Jemez, cochiti, Santa Clara, San Felipe, Santa Domingo, San Juan, and the Hopi villages.Volume 2 presents an extensive body of solstice, installation, initiation, war, weather, curing, kachina, and planting and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8032-8736-5
EAN: 9780803287365
Produktnummer: 1456074
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Seitenangabe: 760 S.
Masse: H21.3 cm x B14.0 cm x D4.3 cm 510 g
Abbildungen: Illus., map
Gewicht: 510

Über den Autor

Elise Clews Parsons, a prominent sociologist, turned her attention to anthropology at the age of forty, after a trip to the Southwest. Her investigations established her as an authority on the Pueblo culture and society. At the time of her death in 1941, she was president of the American Anthropological Association. She was the editor of American Indian Life, also available as a Bison Book. Ramon A. Gutierrez, a professor of history and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, is the author of When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846.