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Pueblo Indian Religion by Elsie Clews Parsons (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press

ISBN-100803287356

ISBN-139780803287358

eBay Product ID (ePID)1057940

Product Key Features

Book TitlePueblo Indian Religion

Number of Pages578 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1996

TopicFolklore & Mythology, General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science

AuthorElsie Clews Parsons

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN95-047046

Dewey Edition20

Reviews""An indispensable source book for every student of Indian life.""-- Science ""A cornerstone and monumental contribution to American ethnology.""-- American Anthropologist

Number of Volumes2 vols.

Volume NumberVol. 1

Dewey Decimal299/.784

SynopsisThe photographs and films of Croatian artist Slavica Perkovic (born 1959) conflate events in her own life with imagined characters and scenarios. The Vertigo project began in 1995, inspired by Hitchcock's film and a lengthy stay in San Francisco. Perkovic visited locations in Vertigo and produced a video work which this volume documents., 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. In volume I she discusses shelter, social structure, land tenure, customs, and popular beliefs. Parsons also describes spirits, cosmic notions, and a wide range of rituals. The cohesion of spiritual and material aspects of Pueblo culture is also apparent in volume II, which presents an extensive body of solstice, installation, initiation, war, weather, curing, kachina, and planting and harvesting ceremonies, as well as games, animal dances, and offerings to the dead. A review of Pueblo ceremonies from town to town considers variations and borrowings. Today, a half century after its original publication, Pueblo Indian Religion remains central to studies of Pueblo religious life., 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. In volume I she discusses shelter, social structure, land tenure, customs, and popular beliefs. Parsons also describes spirits, cosmic notions, and a wide range of rituals. The cohesion of spiritual and material aspects of Pueblo culture is also apparent in volume II, which presents an extensive body of solstice, installation, initiation, war, weather, curing, kachina, and planting and harvesting ceremonies, as well as games, animal dances, and offerings to the dead. A review of Pueblo ceremonies from town to town considers variations and borrowings. Today, a half century after its original publication, Pueblo Indian Religion remains central to studies of Pueblo religious life. Elsie 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 is the editor of American Indian Life, also available as a Bison Book. Pauline Turner Strong, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of the forthcoming Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Practice and Representation of Captivity across the British-Amerindian Frontier, 1576-1776.

LC Classification NumberE99.P9P32 1996