The Zunis : Self-Portrayals
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
082630253X
ISBN-13
9780826302533
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Imprint
University of New Mexico Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 15th, 2015
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
344 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 20.20 x 2.20 cms
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Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Selected by the Zuni people themselves, the tales told here preserve their cultural traditions - from the Zuni creation myth and the rituals of masked dances to farming and hunting practices.
Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Selected by the Zuni people themselves, the tales told here preserve their cultural traditions—from the Zuni creation myth and the rituals of masked dances to farming and hunting practices and battles with Navajos and Apaches. There are tales about ghosts and personified animals, and fables told to discipline children or to warn them against foolhardy bravery and braggadocio. Some of the stories are moral fables, and some are intended as entertainment pure and simple, tales told by a skillful narrator to pass a long evening.
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