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
Autor principal: Griffith, James S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1992.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sanctuaires > Mexique > Primería Alta.
Religion et geographie.
Volksglaube
Kultstätte
Shrines.
Religion and geography.
Shrines > Pimería Alta (Mexico and Ariz.)
Indianer.
Primería Alta (Mexique) > Vie religieuse.
Pimería Alta
North America > Pimería Alta.
Pimería Alta (Mexique et Ariz.) > Vie religieuse.
Pimería Alta (Mexico and Ariz.) > Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
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 (241 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780816533411

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