Pueblo Indian Religion, Volume 2 by Parsons, Elsie Clews

Pueblo Indian Religion, Volume 2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803287365)

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Pueblo Indian Religion, Volume 2 by Parsons, Elsie Clews

Pueblo Indian Religion, Volume 2

$45.00
Pueblo Indian Religion, Volume 2 by Parsons, Elsie Clews

Pueblo Indian Religion, Volume 2

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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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 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.



Author: Elsie Clews Parsons
ISBN-10: 0803287364
ISBN-13: 9780803287365
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1996
Pages: 760
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.70d
By Elsie Clews Parsons
By Elsie Clews Parsons
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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. Ram A. Guti駻rez, 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.

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