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Record Nr.

UNISA996248334003316

Autore

Shorter David Delgado

Titolo

We Will Dance Our Truth : Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances / / David Delgado Shorter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2009

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012

©2009

ISBN

1-282-42396-7

9786612423963

0-8032-2646-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Disciplina

305.897/4542

Soggetti

Oral tradition - Mexico

Folklore - Performance - Mexico

Yaqui Indians - Social life and customs

Yaqui Indians - Rites and ceremonies

Yaqui Indians - Folklore

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-356) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Talking about where Yoeme history begins -- Geography of Yoeme identities -- Putting worlds into words -- Listening to the tree and hearing history -- Our history of nuestros triunfos -- Reconsidering "writing" and the proof of history -- Hunting for history in Potam Pueblo -- Yoeme place-making : acts of loving and giving -- Conclusion: Potam Pueblo enacted.

Sommario/riassunto

In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive field study, Shorter's interpretation of the community's ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of "historical inscription" reveals new meanings of their legends of the Talking Tree, their narrative of myth-and-history known as the



Testamento, their fabled deer dances, funerary rites, and church processions.