Rainhouse and Ocean

Speeches for the Papago Year

von Baptisto Lopez, Donald M Bahr, Jose Pancho, Ruth M Underhill

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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
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.1997
• Größe: 223 x 150 mm
• Verlag: University of Arizona Press