We will dance our truth : Yaqui history in Yoeme performances / David Delgado Shorter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shorter, David Delgado.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yaqui Indians--Folklore.

Yaqui Indians.

Yaqui Indians--Rites and ceremonies.

Yaqui Indians--Social life and customs.

Folklore--Performance--Mexico.

Folklore.

Oral tradition--Mexico.

Oral tradition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Other Title:

Yaqui history in Yoeme performances

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive field study, Shorter's interpretation of the community's ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of "historical inscription" reveals new meanings of their legends of the Talking Tree, their narrative of myth-and-history known as the Testamento, their fabled deer dances, funerary rites, and church processions.

Contents:

Introduction: Talking about where Yoeme history begins

Geography of Yoeme identities

Putting worlds into words

Listening to the tree and hearing history

Our history of nuestros triunfos

Reconsidering "writing" and the proof of history

Hunting for history in Potam Pueblo

Yoeme place-making : acts of loving and giving

Conclusion: Potam Pueblo enacted.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612423963

9781282423961

1282423967

9780803226463

0803226462

OCLC:

593231785

Publisher Number:

2027/heb31426 hdl