Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-356) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Talking about where Yoeme history begins -- Geography of Yoeme identities -- Putting worlds into words -- Listening to the tree and hearing history -- Our history of nuestros triunfos -- Reconsidering "writing" and the proof of history -- Hunting for history in Potam Pueblo -- Yoeme place-making : acts of loving and giving -- Conclusion: Potam Pueblo enacted. |
Summary |
In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive field study, Shorter's interpretation of the community's ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of "historical inscription" reveals new meanings of their legends of the Talking Tree, their narrative of myth-and-history known as the Testamento, their fabled deer dances, funerary rites, and church processions. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Yaqui Indians -- Folklore.
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Yaqui Indians. |
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Folklore. |
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Yaqui Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Yaqui Indians -- Rites and ceremonies. |
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Yaqui Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Yaqui Indians -- Social life and customs. |
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Folklore -- Performance -- Mexico.
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Folklore -- Performance. |
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Mexico. |
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Oral tradition -- Mexico.
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Oral tradition. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Folklore.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Shorter, David Delgado. We will dance our truth. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009 9780803217331 (DLC) 2009012604 (OCoLC)317288686 |
ISBN |
9780803226463 (electronic book) |
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0803226462 (electronic book) |
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0803217331 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780803217331 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780803217331 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
Sudoc No. |
U5002 T339 -2009 |
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