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Rainhouse and Ocean
Ruth Murray Underhill
其他書名
Speeches for the Papago Year
出版Museum of Northern Arizona Press, 1979
主題History / Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN08973402999780897340298
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=R3UaAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.