Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

ISBN-13: 9780804006415 / Angielski / Miękka / 1950 / 432 str.

Frank Waters

Opis

"Masked Gods" is a vast book, a challenging and profoundly original account of the history, legends, and ceremonialism of the Navaho and Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Following a brief but vivid history of the two tribes through the centuries of conquest, the book turns inward to the meaning of Indian legends and ritual Navaho songs, Pueblo dances, Zuni kachina ceremonies. Enduring still, these rituals and ceremonies express a view of life, of man's place in the creation, which is compared with Taoism and Buddhism and with the aggressive individualism of the Western world."