For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large". Includes a preface from Margaret Mead.
Set in pre-historic America, this novel follows the fortunes of the Anasazi Indian tribe. The blue-eyed Kwani, whose special powers mark her out, is travelling through hostile territory with her mate and newborn son.
Retells a Zuni myth in which a young boy and his sister gain the wisdom that makes them leaders of their people through the intercession of a dragonfly.
In this Cinderella variant the poor girl who takes care of the turkeys is rewarded for her kindness to them. Knowing that the girl wants to attend the Dance of the Sacred Bird, a fancy party in a nearby village, the turkeys magically dress her in wonderful clothes and jewels. The girl promises the birds that she will return before sunset but, ...
"The Zuni Man-Woman" focuses on the life of Weawha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian history. Through Weawhaas exceptional life, Will Roscoe creates a vivid picture of an alternative gender role whose history has been hidden and ...
The Zuni have traditionally used small stone carvings of animal figures as power objects and mediators between themselves and the spirit world. Any object that has special meaning can be used as a fetish. In this fascinating, informative, and beautifully illustrated guide to the fetishes of the Zuni people of New Mexico, Hal Zina Bennett explores ...
The lovely stone inlay work in Zuni jewelry is world famous and here it is shown in popular forms for men and women. 90 brilliant color photographs and a brand new price guide present hundreds of Zuni jewelry forms to tempt and delight collectors throughout Asia, Europe and America. Modern artists are identified.
Classic Account Of Native American Folklore By The Pioneer Ethnologist And Adopted Member Of The Zuni Tribe. According To J. Frank Dobie, Cushing Had Rare Imagination And Sympathy. His Retelling Of Tales Are Far Superior To Verbatim Recordings.
These books showcase between five and six hundred items, from classics to modern innovations, from the affordable to the rare, in nearly one hundred beautiful color photographs. Complete with sections on jewelry, kachinas, baskets and plaques, pottery, paintings and new crafts, the author outlines the history of the tribes and their arts.
A bold new study of the Zuni, of the first anthropologists who studied them, and of the effect of Zuni on America's sense of itself The Zuni society existed for centuries before there was a United States, and it still exists in its desert pueblo in what is now New Mexico. In the late nineteenth century, anthropologists-among the first in this new ...
By weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), Margaret Mead offers a deeply insightful portrait of a woman who overcame the barriers of sexism to become one of the most compelling intellectual figures in twentieth-century American life. In this work, Mead defends Benedict's humanistic approach to ...
A brilliant anthropologist gives readers an empathetic and highly personal vision of an embattled Native American culture. Tedlock has lived among the Zuni Indians of New Mexico for 22 years, and her striking book introduces us to vividly realized human beings and to a society whose age and complexity often make our own seem crude and transient by ...
This cookbook from Zuni Pueblo, in western New Mexico, is a compendium of recipes, folklore and even linguistic information. Compiled by Zuni people, written for both natives and outsiders, it is illustrated by young Zuni artists together with historic photos from pueblo archives.
Based on over twenty years' research at Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico, this honest and respectful book takes us into the heart of one Zuni family and allows us to witness the world through its members' eyes. We see the joys of love, marriage, and childbirth and the tragedies of illness, alcoholism, and death. We rediscover the South-western landscape, ...
'Tedlock's book introduces into folklore an attempt to create a verbal notation of the speech dynamics of the original narrators...The realization comes over one with a shock that our infatuation with story has, for all these years, obliterated all but the most rudimentary considerations of style' - "American Anthropologist". This second edition ...
"A brilliant gathering of Zuni narrative poetry collected by anthropologist Dennis Tedlock in New Mexico...Tedlock's Zuni narrators seem like singers of some pueblo Beowulf, orchestrating oral traditions with voices they use like instruments, and whose inflections Tedlock captures in differing type faces." - "Newsweek." "Dennis Tedlock's splendid ...
The Zuni have won legal battles related to aboriginal claims, rights and use. This volume provides an overview of these cases and Zuni history. It covers: Spanish law and land grants; tribal aboriginal title; the Navajo wars; US territorial policy; deforestation; erosion; folklore; and more.
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