{"product_id":"yaqui-deer-songsmaso-bwikam-larry-evers-9780816509959","title":"Yaqui Deer Songs\/Maso Bwikam: A Native American Poetry Volume 14","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the American Folklore Society's Chicago Folklore Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yaqui regard song as a kind of \u003ci\u003elingua franca\u003c\/i\u003e of the intelligent universe. It is through song that experience with other living things is made intelligible and accessible to the human community. Deer songs often take the form of dialogues in which the deer and others in the wilderness world speak with one another or with the deer singers themselves. It is in this way, according to one deer singer, that \"the wilderness world listens to itself even today.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this book authentic ceremonial songs, transcribed in both Yaqui and English, are the center of a fascinating discussion of the Deer Song tradition in Yaqui culture. \u003ci\u003eYaqui Deer Songs\/Maso Bwikam\u003c\/i\u003e thus enables non-Yaquis to hear these dialogues with the wilderness world for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Larry Evers, Felipe S. Molina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816509956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816509959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.58w x 0.63d","brand":"Larry Evers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079367651583,"sku":"9780816509959","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67594b77-da27-4eac-a739-86b0787dbe1a.jpg?v=1685480735","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/yaqui-deer-songsmaso-bwikam-larry-evers-9780816509959","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}