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Traditional Navajo teachings / Robert S. McPherson, Perry J. Robinson.
Penn Museum Library E99.N3 M343 2020 v.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McPherson, Robert S., 1947- author.
- Robinson, Perry J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navajo philosophy.
- Navajo Indians--Religion.
- Navajo Indians.
- Navajo Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
- Navajo Indians--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Utah?] : [Robert S. McPherson], [2020]
- Contents:
- volume 1. Sacred narratives and ceremonies
- volume 2. The natural world
- volume 3. The earth surface people.
- Volume 1 contents: Introduction: Into the táchéé
- The making of a medicine man
- Interacting with the holy people
- Rooted in emerging ways
- Changing Woman and peopling the Earth
- Determining: divination, prayer, and offerings
- Ceremonial etiquette, tools, and performance
- Living medicine structures
- Land, animals, and ceremony: a case study
- Bearway
- Sickness, death, and evil.
- Volume 2 contents: Introduction: Thinking about the natural world in spiritual terms
- Mountains, mesas, and medicine: the living inanimate
- Water, rivers, and rain: sources of life
- Up in the air: wind, moon, stars, and weather
- Between heaven and Earth: the role of trees in traditional teachings
- Plants and herbs as food and medicine: harvesting the Earth's surface
- Antlers of power, food from the gods: holiness on the hoof
- Creatures large and small: helping the people
- Domestic animals: friendship and service at home
- Fish, fowl, and reptile: inhabiting Earth, water, and sky.
- Volume 3 contents: Introduction: On being the earth surface people
- Entering this world: from first cry to first laugh
- Changing Woman: the pattern for motherhood
- Monster Slayer and becoming a man
- Marriage and sexuality: teachings from the holy people
- "To be Navajo is to have family": clan and family relationships
- Healing the sick: a spiritual look at the physical body
- Contemporary Navajo and Western medicine: two views
- Aging and death: walking the old people's road to the end
- Conclusion: Pleas of the holy people.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9798683813932
- 9798683821975
- 9798683831271
- OCLC:
- 1236215598
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