Black Rock : a Zuni cultural landscape and the meaning of place /
To visiting geologists, Black Rock, New Mexico, is a basaltic escarpment and an ideal natural laboratory. To hospital workers, it is a picturesque place to earn a living. To the Zuni, the mesas, arroyos, and the rock itself are a stage on which the passion of their elders is relived. This book explo...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2007.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: A visit to Black Rock
- Introduction to place-making, identity, and cultural landscapes
- A place of landforms, imagination, and spirituality
- Peopling the place
- Constructing the Zuni Dam
- The Zuni agency boarding school at Black Rock
- Appropriating place : Black Rock, an agency town
- Taking back Black Rock : the Indian new deal and self-determination
- Making sense of Black Rock's cultural landscape.