Black Rock : a Zuni cultural landscape and the meaning of place /

Show other versions (2)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dodge, William A., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2007.
Subjects:
Zuni Indians > New Mexico > Black Rock > Social life and customs.
Geographical perception > New Mexico > Black Rock.
Landscape assessment > New Mexico > Black Rock.
Ethnoecology > New Mexico > Black Rock.
Zuñi > Nouveau-Mexique > Black Rock > Mœurs et coutumes.
Perception géographique > Nouveau-Mexique > Black Rock.
Paysages > Évaluation > Nouveau-Mexique > Black Rock.
Ethnoécologie > Nouveau-Mexique > Black Rock.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Geographical perception
Ethnoecology
Landscape assessment
Manners and customs
Zuni Indians > Social life and customs
Black Rock (N.M.) > History.
Black Rock (N.M.) > Social life and customs.
New Mexico > Black Rock
History
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.

Similar Items