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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.
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. In volume I she
discusses shelter, social structure, land tenure, customs, and
popular beliefs. Parsons also describes spirits, cosmic notions,
and a wide range of rituals.
The cohesion of spiritual and material aspects of Pueblo culture
is also apparent in volume II, which 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.
This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.
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