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Zu�ni : selected writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing / edited, with an introduction by Jesse Green ; foreword by Fred Eggan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, �1979.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 447 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585272603
  • 9780585272603
  • 9780803270077
  • 0803270070
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Zu�ni.DDC classification:
  • 970/.004/97
LOC classification:
  • E99.Z9 .C87 1979eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Becoming an Indian -- Introduction -- Going to Zuni -- My adventures in Zuni -- Letters from Zuni -- A scalp and initiation -- Tried for sorcery -- Observations and participants -- Introduction -- A lesson in history -- Zuni and the missionaries: keeping the old ways -- Outline of Zuni mytho-sociologic organization -- Zuni fetiches -- Remarks on shamanism -- Form -- Form and the dance-drama -- A case of primitive surgery -- Origins of Pueblo pottery -- From "Zuni breadstuff" -- Translations -- Intoduction -- Creation and the origin of corn -- From Zuni Folk Tales -- Zuni comes east -- Introduction -- Notes on Zuni made during a visit of Palowahtiwa, Waihusiwa, and Heluta at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, 1886.
Summary: Social theory, personal experiences on becoming an Indian, the origins of pueblo pottery, shamanism, and the zuni cultural and sociological structure are among the topics examined by the late-nineteenth-century anthropologist and pioneer in the study of Southwest American ethnology.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-438).

Social theory, personal experiences on becoming an Indian, the origins of pueblo pottery, shamanism, and the zuni cultural and sociological structure are among the topics examined by the late-nineteenth-century anthropologist and pioneer in the study of Southwest American ethnology.

Becoming an Indian -- Introduction -- Going to Zuni -- My adventures in Zuni -- Letters from Zuni -- A scalp and initiation -- Tried for sorcery -- Observations and participants -- Introduction -- A lesson in history -- Zuni and the missionaries: keeping the old ways -- Outline of Zuni mytho-sociologic organization -- Zuni fetiches -- Remarks on shamanism -- Form -- Form and the dance-drama -- A case of primitive surgery -- Origins of Pueblo pottery -- From "Zuni breadstuff" -- Translations -- Intoduction -- Creation and the origin of corn -- From Zuni Folk Tales -- Zuni comes east -- Introduction -- Notes on Zuni made during a visit of Palowahtiwa, Waihusiwa, and Heluta at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, 1886.

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