Dinéjí Na'nitin [[electronic resource] ] : Navajo traditional teachings and history / / Robert S. McPherson

• Autore: McPherson Robert S. <1947->
• Pubblicazione: Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 979.1004/9726
• Soggetto topico: Navajo Indians - History; Navajo philosophy; Navajo Indians - Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Entering the Táchééh; NOTES; 1 Wind, Hand, and Stars: Reading the Past, Finding the Future through Divination; WIND LISTENING; STAR GAZING; HAND TREMBLING; NOTES; 2 The 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic: A Cultural Response; ANGLO TOWN RESPONSE; RURAL MORMON COMMUNITY RESPONSE; NAVAJO RESPONSE; UTE RESPONSE; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 3 Sacred Evil: The Dark Side of Life along the San Juan; ORIGIN AND TYPES OF SACRED EVIL; SACRED EVIL AND ITS PRACTITIONERS; PLACES OF POWER; MEDICINE BUNDLES AND SKINWALKERS ; MEDICINE MEN: DETECTION AND PROTECTIONNOTES; 4 "Too Much Noise in That Bunch across the River": Ba'álílee and the 1907 Aneth Brawl; THE EARLY YEARS; SHELTON: OPENING SALVOS; BA'ÁLÍLEE BITES BACK; TIT FOR TAT; ATTACK AND CAPTURE; JUDGMENT, REVERSAL, AND AFTERMATH; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 5 Traditional Teachings and Thought: Navajo Metaphors of the Elders; TEACHINGS OF THE FIRE POKER (HONEESHGISH); HOGAN AS UNIVERSE; THE BODY AS METAPHOR; THE WEDDING BASKET AS LIFE'S JOURNEY; TEACHINGS OF HOME, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY; FACING CULTURAL LOSS; NOTES ; 6 "He Stood for Us Strongly": Father H. Baxter Liebler's Mission to the NavajoESTABLISHING THE MISSION IN THE MAN; ESTABLISHING SAINT CHRISTOPHER'S MISSION; CREATING AND USING THE LITURGY; THE POWER OF SYMBOLS; MINISTERING TO THE PEOPLE; THE END OF AN ERA; NOTES; 7 Seeing Is Believing: The Odyssey of the Pectol Shields; PECTOL'S AND OTHER LDS INTERPRETATIONS; THE SHIELDS: FAME, DEFAME, AND REINTERPRETATION; OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND MUSEUMS; ENTER NATIVE AMERICANS AND NAGPRA; JOHN HOLIDAY AND THE NAVAJO INTERPRETATION; REPATRIATION AND AFTERMATH; NOTES ; 8 Of Stars, Goats, and Wind: Navajo Metaphors Then and NowMETAPHOR AND MEANING; TRADITIONAL METAPHORS; FROM TRADITIONAL TO CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION; KINSHIP AND METAPHOR; CHANGING METAPHORICAL THOUGHT; METAPHORS FOR TODAY; NOTES; 9 Gambling on the Future: Navajo Elders, Jiní, and Prophetic Warnings; GREAT GAMBLER: THE TEACHINGS; GREAT GAMBLER AND ANAASÁZÍ: CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION; GOING "CRAZY"; LANGUAGE LOSS; EDUCATION AND TODAY'S SOCIETY; ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNS OF THE TIMES; END OF THE WORLD; NOTES; Bibliography; GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS AND ARCHIVES; INTERVIEWS; BOOKS AND ARTICLES; MANUSCRIPTS ; NEWSPAPERSIndex
• Titolo autorizzato: Dinéjí Na'nitin
• ISBN: 1-4571-7396-4; 1-4571-7398-0; 1-60732-217-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910526606603321
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