Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism
By Unknown Author.
Description
1984 Ohio University Press trade paperback, 4th printing. Frank Waters (Book of the Hopi). Masked Gods is a vast book, a challenging and profoundly original account of the history, legends, and ceremonialism of the Navaho and Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Following a brief but vivid history of the two tribes through the centuries of conquest, the book turns inward to the meaning of Indian legends and ritual - Navaho songs, Pueblo dances, Zuni kachina ceremonies. Enduring still, these rituals and ceremonies express a view of life, of man's place in the creation, which is compared wit...
ISBN(s)
0804006415, 9780804006415
