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The short, swift time of gods on earth : the Hohokam chronicles /
In 1935 two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1935 two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the "Hohokam Chronicles," is the most complete natively articulated Pima creation narrative ever written and a rare example of a single-narrator myth |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (343 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-332) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520914568 0520914562 0585365016 9780585365015 0520084675 9780520084674 0520084683 9780520084681 |