Earth & sky : visions of the cosmos in Native American folklore /

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Edition:1st paperbound ed.
Imprint:Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1994, c1992.
Description:299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1667526
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Other title:Earth and sky.
Other authors / contributors:Williamson, Ray A., 1938-
Farrer, Claire R.
ISBN:0826315534 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the animating breath / Ray A. Williamson and Claire F. Farrer
  • Cosmos and poesis in the Seneca thank-you prayer / Paul Zolbrod
  • The celestial skiff : an Alabama myth of the stars / Ray A. Williamson
  • "... by you they will know the directions to guide them" : stars and Mescalero Apaches / Claire R. Farrer
  • Morning star, evening star : Zuni traditional stories / M. Jane Young
  • Navajo earth and sky and the celestial life force / Rik Pinxten and Ingrid Van Dooren
  • The Hooghan and the stars / Trudy Griffin-Pierce
  • Saguaro wine, ground figures, and power mountains : investigations at Sears Point, Arizona / Tom Hoskinson
  • Menil (moon) : symbolic representation of Cahuilla woman / Lowell Bean.
  • Racing Simloki's shadow : the Ajumawi interconnection of power, shadow, equinox and solstice / Jack M. Broughton and Floyd Buckskin
  • North Pacific ethnoastronomy : Tsimshian and others / Jay Miller
  • Clot-of-blood / Alice B. Kehoe
  • On the necessity of sacrifice in Lakota stellar theology as seen in "the hand" constellation, and the story of "the chief who lost his arm" / Ronald Goodman
  • The chief and his council : unity and authority from the stars / Von Del Chamberlain
  • The conjurer's lodge : celestial narratives from Algonkian Shamans / Thor Conway
  • Asking the stars : narrative indicators of Seneca hunting ceremonial / Thomas McElwain
  • Epilogue : blue archaeoastronomy / Claire R. Farrer and Ray A. Williamson.