Speeches for the Papago Year
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/02/1997
The Tohono O'odham of southern Arizona, formerly known as the Papago, have made a life in a place that many would consider uninhabitable. These desert people were converted to Catholicism by early Spanish missionaries, yet they retain much of their earlier lifeway as a means of continuing adaptation to their desert environment. This book is a restudy of speeches and ritual information collected by anthropologist Underhill beginning in 1931 and published in her book Papago Indian Religion (1946). It describes the Native--as opposed to the Christian--side of the yearly ritual cycle of the Tohono O'odham, showing how seven rites form a system of meanings that grew from the relation between these people and their desert homeland. The rites presented focus on the summer wine feast, salt pilgrimage, hunting, war, and flood.
- ISBN:
- 9780816517749
- 9780816517749
- Category:
- Indigenous peoples
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-02-1997
- Language:
- English, Central american indian
- Publisher:
- University of Arizona Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 153
- Dimensions (mm):
- 223x150x9mm
- Weight:
- 0.24kg
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