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O'Odham Creation and Related Events: As Told to Ruth Benedict in 1927
ISBN: 9780816534159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The origin stories of the O odham (Pima) Indians of Arizona are renowned for their beauty and complexity but have been collected in only a handful of books. This volume the third full O odham telling of ancientness to appear in print brings together dozens of stories collected in 1927 by anthropologist Ruth Benedict during her only visit to the Pimas. Never before published, they helped inspire Benedict to write her groundbreaking book Patterns of Culture. The Pimas represented a way of life that Benedict at first called Dionysian after hearing the stories, narratives,... The origin stories of the O odham (Pima) Indians of Arizona are renowned for their beauty and complexity but have been collected in only a h... |
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121,89 zł |
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The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles
ISBN: 9780520084681 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the "Hohokam Chronicles," is the most complete natively articulated Pima creation narrative ever written and a rare example of a single-narrator myth. Now this extraordinary work, composed of...
In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reput...
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221,24 zł |
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O'Odham Creation and Related Events: As Told to Ruth Benedict in 1927
ISBN: 9780816520800 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The origin stories of the O odham (Pima) Indians of Arizona are renowned for their beauty and complexity but have been collected in only a handful of books. This volume the third full O odham telling of ancientness to appear in print brings together dozens of stories collected in 1927 by anthropologist Ruth Benedict during her only visit to the Pimas. Never before published, they helped inspire Benedict to write her groundbreaking book Patterns of Culture. The Pimas represented a way of life that Benedict at first called Dionysian after hearing the stories, narratives,... The origin stories of the O odham (Pima) Indians of Arizona are renowned for their beauty and complexity but have been collected in only a h... |
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204,87 zł |
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Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (Ká CIM Múmkidag)
ISBN: 9780816535668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Piman shamanism is based on the belief that morality and some forms of sickness are interrelated. The shaman, or medicine man, has a dual role in the Piman Indian culture. He is the guardian of the Pimans' health and their consciousness of cultural identity. This definitive study of shamanic theory and practice was developed through a four-person collaboration: three Tohono O'odham Indians--a shaman, a translator, and a trained linguist--and a non-Indian explicator. It provides an in-depth examination of the Piman philosophy of sickness as well as an introduction to the world view of an...
Piman shamanism is based on the belief that morality and some forms of sickness are interrelated. The shaman, or medicine man, has a dual role in the ...
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141,40 zł |
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Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (Ká:cim Múmkidag)
ISBN: 9780816503032 / Angielski / Miękka / 1974 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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58,49 zł |
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The Hohokam Millennium
ISBN: 9781930618817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) For a thousand years they flourished in the arid lands now part of Arizona. They built extensive waterworks, ballcourts, and platform mounds, made beautiful pottery and jewelry, and engaged in wide-ranging trade networks. Then, slowly, their civilization faded and transmuted into something no longer Hohokam. Are today's Tohono O'odham their heirs or their conquerors? The mystery and the beauty of Hohokam civilization are the subjects of the essays in this volume. Written by archaeologists who have led the effort to excavate, record, and preserve the remnants of this ancient culture, the... For a thousand years they flourished in the arid lands now part of Arizona. They built extensive waterworks, ballcourts, and platform mounds, made ... |
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117,02 zł |