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Author : Berard Haile
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Legend of the Ghostway Ritual in the Male Branch of Shootingway written by Berard Haile and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Spencer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477306404
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Mythology and Values written by Katherine Spencer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Katherine Spencer examines Navaho cultural values by studying a specific subset of Navaho mythology: chantway myths, part of ceremonies performed to cure illness. She begins with a summary of the general plot construction of chantway myths and the value themes presented in these plots, then discusses “explanatory elements” inserted by the narrators of the myths. She continues with a deeper analysis of the cultural value judgements conveyed by these myths. At the end of the book, Spencer includes abstracts of the myths she discusses.
Author : Gill
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004664262
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Songs of Life written by Gill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kurt Frederick Anschuetz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book More Than a Scenic Mountain Landscape written by Kurt Frederick Anschuetz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the cultural-historical environment of the 88,900-acre (35,560-ha) Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) over the past four centuries of Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. governance. It includes a review and synthesis of available published and unpublished historical, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic literature about the human occupation of the area now contained within the VCNP. Documents include historical maps, texts, letters, diaries, business records, photographs, land and mineral patents, and court testimony.??This study presents a cultural-historical framework of VCNP land use that will be useful to land managers and researchers in assessing the historical ecology of the property. It provides VCNP administrators and agents the cultural-historical background needed to develop management plans that acknowledge traditional associations with the Preserve, and offers managers additional background for structuring and acting on consultations with affiliated communities.
Author : Rose Mitchell
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826322036
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Tall Woman written by Rose Mitchell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays Navajo weaver and midwife Tall Woman, who held onto traditional Navajo ways, raised twelve children, and cared for the farm throughout her marriage to political leader and Blessingway singer Frank Mitchell.
Author : Donald Sandner
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892814343
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Navaho Symbols of Healing written by Donald Sandner and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jungian-trained psychiatrist explores ancient Navaho methods of healing that use vibrant imagery to bring the psyche into harmony with natural forces.
Author : Robert M. Nelson
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433102059
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony written by Robert M. Nelson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: The Recovery of Tradition is a study of the embedded texts that function as the formal and thematic backbone of Leslie Marmon Silko's 1977 novel. Robert M. Nelson identifies the Keresan and Navajo ethnographic pretexts that Silko reappropriates and analyzes the many ways these texts relate to the surrounding prose narrative.
Author : Leland C. Wyman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816535833
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Blessingway written by Leland C. Wyman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding work crafted from the handwritten pages of translations from the Navajo of the late Father Berard Haile giving three separate versions of the Blessingway rite with each version consisting of a prose text accompanied by the ritual songs and prayers. Valuable insights into the character and use of the Blessingway rite; its ceremonial procedures, its mythology, and its drypaintings.
Author : Jerrold E. Levy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520920570
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book In the Beginning written by Jerrold E. Levy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. Looking first at the historical context of the Navajo narratives, Levy points out that Navajo society has never during its known history been either homogeneous or unchanging, and he goes on to identify in the myths persisting traditions that represent differing points of view within the society. The major transformations of the Navajo people, from a northern hunting and gathering society to a farming, then herding, then wage-earning society in the American Southwest, were accompanied by changes not only in social organization but also in religion. Levy sees evidence of internal historical conflicts in the varying versions of the creation myth and their reflection in the origin myths associated with healing rituals. Levy also compares Navajo answers to the perennial questions about the creation of the cosmos and why people are the way they are with the answers provided by Judaism and Christianity. And, without suggesting that they are equivalent, Levy discusses certain parallels between Navajo religious ideas and contemporary scientific cosmology. The possibility that in the future Navajo religion will be as much altered by changing conditions as it has been in the past makes this fascinating account all the more timely.
Author : Jerome S. Bernstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135448787
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Living in the Borderland written by Jerome S. Bernstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in the Borderland addresses the evolution of Western consciousness and describes the emergence of the ‘Borderland,' a spectrum of reality that is beyond the rational yet is palpable to an increasing number of individuals. Building on Jungian theory, Jerome Bernstein argues that a greater openness to transrational reality experienced by Borderland personalities allows new possibilities for understanding and healing confounding clinical and developmental enigmas. There are many people whose experiences of reality is outside the mainstream of Western culture; often they see themselves as abnormal because they have no articulated frame of reference for their experience. The concept of the Borderland personality explains much of their experience. In three sections, this book examines the psychological and clinical implications of the evolution of consciousness and looks at how the new Borderland consciousness bridges the mind-body divide. Subjects covered include: · Genesis: Evolution of the Western Ego · Transrational Data in a Western Clinical Context: Synchronicity · Trauma and Borderland Transcendence · Environmental Illness Complex · Integration of Navajo and Western healing approaches for Borderland Personalities. Living in the Borderland challenges the standard clinical model, which views normality as an absence of pathology and which equates normality with the rational. Jerome S. Bernstein describes how psychotherapy itself often contributes to the alienation of Borderland personalities by misperceiving the difference between the pathological and the sacred. The case studies included illustrate the potential this has for causing serious psychic and emotional damage to the patient. This challenge to the orthodoxies and complacencies of Western medicine’s concept of pathology will interest Jungian Analysts, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists and other physicians, as well as educators of children. Jerome S. Bernstein is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Author : Stephen Carl Arch
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603294929
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper written by Stephen Carl Arch and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cosmopolitan author who spent nearly a decade in Europe and was versed in the works of his British and French contemporaries, James Fenimore Cooper was also deeply concerned with the America of his day and its history. His works embrace themes that have dominated American literature since: the frontier; the oppression of Native Americans by Europeans; questions of race, gender, and class; and rugged individualism, as represented by figures like the pirate, the spy, the hunter, and the settler. His most memorable character, Natty Bumppo, has entered into American popular culture. The essays in this volume offer students bridges to Cooper's novels, which grapple with complex moral issues that are still crucial today. Engaging with film adaptations, cross-culturalism, animal studies, media history, environmentalism, and Indigenous American poetics, the essays offer new ways to bring these novels to life in the classroom.
Author : John Ladd
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725209497
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Structure of a Moral Code written by John Ladd and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Ladd here presents a philosophical analysis of the nature and structure of a moral code. He exemplifies his general theory by providing the first systematic description of Navajo ethics, based on raw material gathered by intensive anthropological field work among the Navajo. The complete transcript of his field notes is contained in the Appendix to this book. Mr. Ladd shows how the codes of other societies can be described with scientific rigor and objectivity. Drawing upon recent developments in analytical ethics that emphasize the uses of discourse and the logic of imperatives, he develops a general theory of moral codes which holds considerable significance for moral philosophers and which presents for anthropologists a methodology for their investigations into the ethical systems of non-literate cultures.
Author : Jerrold E. Levy
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816548048
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Hand Trembling, Frenzy Witchcraft, and Moth Madness written by Jerrold E. Levy and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to traditional Navajo belief, seizures are the result of sibling incest, sexual witchcraft, or possession by a supernatural spirit—associations that have kept such disorders from being known outside Navajo families. This new study is concerned with discovering why the Navajos have accorded seizures such importance and determining their meaning in the larger context of Navajo culture. The book is based on a 14-year study of some 40 Navajo patients and on an epidemiological survey among the Navajos and among three Pueblo tribes.
Author : Stephen J. Kunitz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Disease Change and the Role of Medicine written by Stephen J. Kunitz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl W. Luckert
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816538972
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Navajo Hunter Tradition written by Karl W. Luckert and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to the study of myths relating to the origin of the Navajos. Based on extensive fieldwork and research, including Navajo hunter informants and unpublished manuscripts of Father Berard Haile. Part 1: The Navajo Tradition, Perspectives and History Part II: Navajo Hunter Mythology A Collection of Texts Part III: The Navajo Hunter Tradition: An Interpretation
Author : Nancy Mattina
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806165650
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Uncommon Anthropologist written by Nancy Mattina and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard (1893–1955) is one of America’s least-appreciated anthropologists. Her accomplishments were obscured in her lifetime by differences in intellectual approach and envy, as well as academic politics and the gender realities of her age. This biography offers the first full account of Reichard’s life, her milieu, and, most important, her work—establishing, once and for all, her lasting significance in the history of anthropology. In her thirty-two years as the founder and head of Barnard College’s groundbreaking anthropology department, Reichard taught that Native languages, written or unwritten, sacred or profane, offered Euro-Americans the least distorted views onto the inner life of North America’s first peoples. This unique approach put her at odds with anthropologists such as Edward Sapir, leader of the structuralist movement in American linguistics. Similarly, Reichard’s focus on Native psychology as revealed to her by Native artists and storytellers produced a dramatically different style of ethnography from that of Margaret Mead, who relied on western psychological archetypes to “crack” alien cultural codes, often at a distance. Despite intense pressure from her peers to conform to their theories, Reichard held firm to her humanitarian principles and methods; the result, as Nancy Mattina makes clear, was pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language—amplified by an exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring. Drawing on Reichard’s own writings and correspondence, this book provides an intimate picture of her small-town upbringing, the professional challenges she faced in male-centered institutions, and her quietly revolutionary contributions to anthropology. Gladys Reichard emerges as she lived and worked—a far-sighted, self-reliant humanist sustained in turbulent times by the generous, egalitarian spirit that called her yearly to the far corners of the American West.
Author : Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186372
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book "I Choose Life" written by Maureen Trudelle Schwarz and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Navajos navigate the complex world of medicine Surgery, blood transfusions, CPR, and organ transplantation are common biomedical procedures for treating trauma and disease. But for Navajo Indians, these treatments can conflict with their traditional understanding of health and well-being. This book investigates how Navajos navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world while coping with illness. Focusing on Navajo attitudes toward invasive procedures, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz reveals the ideological conflicts experienced by Navajo patients and the reasons behind the choices they make to promote their own health and healing. Schwarz has conducted extensive interviews with patients, traditional herbalists and ceremonial practitioners, and members of Native American Church and Christian denominations to reveal the variety of perspectives toward biomedicine that prevail on the reservation and to show how each group within the tribe copes with health-related issues. She describes how Navajos interpret numerous health issues in terms of local understanding, drawing on both their own and biomedical or Christian traditions. She also provides insight into how Navajos use ceremonial practice and prayer to deal with the consequences of amputation or transplantation.
