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1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-195) and index. |
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Introduction: American holy land -- Cushing in Zuni -- Visitors and visions -- Representing the Southwest -- Salon in Taos -- Papa Franz's family -- Feminist utopia -- Conclusion. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the pueblos of the Southwest frequently inspired Anglo-American visitors to express their sense of wonder and enchantment in biblical references. Frank Hamilton Cushing's first account of Zuni pueblo described a setting that looked like 'The Pools of Palestine'. Drawn to the Southwest, Mabel Dodge imagined "a garden of Eden, inhabited by an unfallen tribe of men and women." There she was attracted to Tony Luhan, a Taos Indian who looked "like a Biblical figure." When historian Jerold Auerbach first saw Edward S Curtis's early twentieth-century photograph 'Taos Water Girls, ' he realised that "here, indeed, was the biblical Rebecca, relocated to New Mexico from ancient Haran, where Abraham's faithful servant had journeyed to find a suitable wife for Isaac. Rebecca with her water pitcher is as familiar a biblical icon as Noah and his ark or Moses with the stone tablets. Curtis had recast her as the archetypal Pueblo maiden." The book uncovers an intriguing array of diaries, letters, memoirs, photographs, paintings, postcards, advertisements, anthropological field studies, and scholarly monographs. They reveal how Anglo-Americans disenchanted with modern urban industrial society developed a deep and rich fascination with pueblo culture through their biblical associations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pueblo Indians -- History -- Sources.
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Pueblo Indians. |
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History. |
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Sources.
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Pueblo Indians -- Public opinion.
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Pueblo Indians -- Public opinion. |
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Pueblo Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Pueblo Indians -- Social life and customs. |
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Indians in literature.
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Indians in literature. |
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Indians in art.
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Indians in art. |
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Indians in popular culture -- Southwest, New.
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Indians in popular culture. |
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New Southwest. |
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Public opinion -- Southwest, New.
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Public opinion. |
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White people -- Southwest, New -- Relations with Indians.
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White people. |
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Relations with Indians. |
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Southwest, New -- Discovery and exploration.
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Discoveries in geography. |
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Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Auerbach, Jerold S. Explorers in Eden. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006 (DLC) 2005035687 (OCoLC)62533886 |
| ISBN |
9780826339478 (electronic book) |
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0826339476 (electronic book) |
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082633945X |
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9780826339454 |
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082633945X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780826339454 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780826339461 |
| Standard No. |
9780826339454 |
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