Beliefs and holy places : a spiritual geography of the Pimería Alta /

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The region once known as Pimeria Alta--now southern Arizona and northern Sonora--has for more than three centuries been a melting pot for the beliefs of native Tohono O'odham and immigrant Yaquis and those of colonizing Spaniards and Mexicans. The author reveals some of the supernaturally sanct...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griffith, James S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1992.
Temas:
Shrines > Pimería Alta (Mexico and Ariz.)
Religion and geography.
Religion et géographie.
Shrines.
Kultstätte
Volksglaube
Sanctuaires > Mexique > Primería Alta.
Pimería Alta (Mexico and Ariz.) > Religious life and customs.
Pimería Alta (Mexique et Ariz.) > Vie religieuse.
North America > Pimería Alta.
Pimería Alta
Primería Alta (Mexique) > Vie religieuse.
Indianer.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:The region once known as Pimeria Alta--now southern Arizona and northern Sonora--has for more than three centuries been a melting pot for the beliefs of native Tohono O'odham and immigrant Yaquis and those of colonizing Spaniards and Mexicans. The author reveals some of the supernaturally sanctioned relationships that tie people to places within religious meanings of locations and showing how bonds between people and places have in turn created relationships between places, a spiritual geography undetectable on physical maps. -- from cover.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxi, 218 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index.
ISBN:0816533415
9780816533411

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