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Blessingway
With Three Versions of the Myth Recorded and Translated from the Navajo by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M.
By Leland C. Wyman; Foreword by Bernard L. Fontana
The University of Arizona Press
An outstanding work crafted from the handwritten pages of translations from the Navajo of the late Father Berard Haile giving three separate versions of the Blessingway rite with each version consisting of a prose text accompanied by the ritual songs and prayers. Valuable insights into the character and use of the Blessingway rite; its ceremonial procedures, its mythology, and its drypaintings.
American Labor in the Southwest
The First One Hundred Years
Edited by James C. Foster
The University of Arizona Press
The Last 10,000 Years
A Fossil Pollen Record of the American Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
The Hohokam
Desert Farmers and Craftsmen, Excavations at Snaketown, 1964–1965
The University of Arizona Press
The Aztec Kings
The Construction of Rulership in Mexican History
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory, The Aztec Kings is the first major study to take into account the Aztec cyclical conception of time and treat indigenous historical traditions as symbolic statements in narrative form. Susan D. Gillespie focuses on the dynastic history of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan. By demonstrating that most of Aztec history is nonliteral, she sheds new light on Aztec culture and on the function of history in society. By relating the cyclical structure of Aztec dynastic history to similar traditions of African and Polynesian peoples, she introduces a broader perspective on the function of history in society and on how and why history must change.
Rules and Precepts of the Jesuit Missions of Northwestern New Spain
The University of Arizona Press
Once a River
Bird Life and Habitat Changes on the Middle Gila
The University of Arizona Press
Impounded People
Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers
The University of Arizona Press
Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache
Letters from the Field
Edited by Morris E. Opler
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest
Edited by Edward H. Spicer; By Eleanor Bauwens, Margarita Artschwager Kay, Mary Elizabeth Shutler, and Loudell F. Snow
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest explores traditions guiding the medical arts of Yaqui, Anglo, Black and Mexican American communities and points out the relationship between alternative and scientific medicine. Beliefs prevail that illness may be punishment for sin, or caused by witchcraft or overwork. Treatment may include dreams, herbs, massage, or prayer. While practitioners in these communities are not necessarily licensed in the legal sense, they are nonetheless trusted and often effective.
Ecology of Sonoran Desert Plants and Plant Communities
Edited by Robert H. Robichaux
The University of Arizona Press
Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of William Cornell Greene: Copper King, Cattle Baron, and Promoter Extraordinary in Mexico, the American Southwest, and the New York Financial District
The University of Arizona Press
Bristlecone Pine in the White Mountains of California
Growth and Ring-Width Characteristics
The University of Arizona Press
Papers of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, No. 4
The Vertebrates of Arizona
With Major Section on Arizona Habitats
Edited by Charles H. Lowe
The University of Arizona Press
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