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Title: The Zunis
Condition: New
Subtitle: Self-Portrayals
Author: The Zuni People
Translator: Alvina Quam
Contributor: Alvina Quam (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780826302533
ISBN: 9780826302533
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Language & Reference, Social Sciences
Release Date: 28/02/2015
Description: Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Selected by the Zuni people themselves, the tales told here preserve their cultural traditions—from the Zuni creation myth and the rituals of masked dances to farming and hunting practices and battles with Navajos and Apaches. There are tales about ghosts and personified animals, and fables told to discipline children or to warn them against foolhardy bravery and braggadocio. Some of the stories are moral fables, and some are intended as entertainment pure and simple, tales told by a skillful narrator to pass a long evening.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 139mm
Release Year: 2015

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