Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam
239 pages, 7 x 8 3/4
Paperback
Release Date:01 Jan 1987
ISBN:9780816509959
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Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam

A Native American Poetry

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The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the American Folklore Society’s Chicago Folklore Prize
 
Yaqui regard song as a kind of lingua franca of the intelligent universe. It is through song that experience with other living things is made intelligible and accessible to the human community. Deer songs often take the form of dialogues in which the deer and others in the wilderness world speak with one another or with the deer singers themselves. It is in this way, according to one deer singer, that “the wilderness world listens to itself even today.”
 
In this book authentic ceremonial songs, transcribed in both Yaqui and English, are the center of a fascinating discussion of the Deer Song tradition in Yaqui culture. Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam thus enables non-Yaquis to hear these dialogues with the wilderness world for the first time.
Larry Evers is professor of English at the University of Arizona and editor of the American Indian literary series Sun Tracks. Felipe S. Molina is a Yaqui deer singer who has served as governor of Yoem Pueblo and as a member of the Pascua Tribal Council.
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