Masked Gods: Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialism

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Ballantine Books, 1970 - Indians of North America - 459 pages
Masked gods is a vast book, a challenging and profoundly original account of the history, legends, and ceremonialism of the Navaho and Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Following a brief but vivid history of the two tribes through the centuries of conquest, the book turns inward to the meaning of Indian legends and rituals : Navaho sings, Pueblo dances, Zuni kachina ceremonies. Enduring still, these rituals and ceremonies express a view of life, of man's place in the creation, which is compared with Taoism and Buddhism, and with the aggressive individualism of the Western world.

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TIDE FROM THE SOUTH
22
INTERREGNUM
36
THE RISING SUN
50
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