LEADER 03684nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910955651903321 005 20240508092505.0 010 $a0-8173-8247-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019455 035 $a(EBL)547610 035 $a(OCoLC)650060108 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000458813 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11317919 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458813 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10459475 035 $a(PQKB)10651138 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8933 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL547610 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10408266 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC547610 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019455 100 $a20090330d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLandscapes of origin in the Americas $ecreation narratives linking ancient places and present communities /$fedited by Jessica Joyce Christie 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8173-5560-X 311 08$a0-8173-1673-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction / Jessica Joyce Christie -- The Center of the World : The Principle People and the Great Smoky Mountains / Christopher Arris Oakley -- Xeroxed on Stone : Times of Origin and the Navajo Holy People in Canyon Landscapes / Polly Schaafsma, Will Tsosie -- Nuvagantu, "Where Snow Sits'" : Origin Mountains of the Southern Paiutes / Richard Stoffle, Richard Arnold, Kathleen Van Vlack, Larry Eddy, Betty Cornelius -- Origin Narratives, Places, and Concepts among the 'Namgis, a Kwakwaka' wakw Group in British Columbia, Canada / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Malinalco : A Place between Heaven and Earth / Manuel Aguilar-Moreno -- The Map of the Province of Mani: A Record of Landscape and Northern Maya Lowland Concepts of Origin / Merideth Paxton -- Ancestral Presence at the Navel of the World : Francisco Sojuel and Santiago Atitlan / Allen J. Christenson -- Landscapes as Metaphor : Resources, Language, and Myths of Dynastic Origin on the Pacific Coast from the Santa Valley (Peru) to Manabi (Ecuador) / Patricia J. Netherly -- Inka Pacariqtambo : It Depends Which Eyes Are Looking at It / Jessica Joyce Christie. 330 $aLandscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points. In conventional anthropological literature, ""landscape"" is the term applied to the meaning local people bestow on their cultural and physical surroundings. In this work, the authors explore the cultural and physical landscapes an individual or cultural group has constructed to define the origins o 606 $aIndians$xOrigin 606 $aIndian mythology$zAmerica 606 $aSacred space$zAmerica 606 $aIndians$vFolklore 606 $aCreation$xMythology$zAmerica 606 $aPhysical geography$zAmerica 615 0$aIndians$xOrigin. 615 0$aIndian mythology 615 0$aSacred space 615 0$aIndians 615 0$aCreation$xMythology 615 0$aPhysical geography 676 $a398.2089/97 701 $aChristie$b Jessica Joyce$f1956-$01667493 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955651903321 996 $aLandscapes of origin in the Americas$94407288 997 $aUNINA