The rich religious beliefs and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of
Arizona and New Mexico were first synthesized and compared by
ethnologist Elsie Clews Parsons. Prodigious research and a
quarter-century of fieldwork went into her 1939 encyclopedic
two-volume work, Pueblo Indian Religion.
The author gives an integrated picture of the complex religious
and social life in the pueblos, including Zuni, Acoma, Laguna,
Taos, Isleta, Sandia, Jemez, cochiti, Santa Clara, San Felipe,
Santa Domingo, San Juan, and the Hopi villages.
Volume 2 presents an extensive body of solstice, installation,
initiation, war, weather, curing, kachina, and planting and
harvesting ceremonies as well as games, animal dances, and
offerings to the dead. A review of Pueblo ceremonies from town to
town considers variations and borrowings. Today, a half century
after its original publication, Pueblo Indian Religion remains
central to studies of Pueblo religious life.
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