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Traditional Navajo teachings
- Title
- Traditional Navajo teachings / Robert S. McPherson and Perry Juan Robinson.
- Author
- McPherson, Robert S., 1947-
- Publication
- [Utah?] : [Robert S. McPherson], [2020]
- ©2020
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 3 | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-415 v. 3 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-415 v. 2 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-415 v. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Robinson, Perry Juan
- Description
- 3 volumes : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- 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
- Call Number
- JFE 22-415
- ISBN
- 9798683813932
- 9798683821975
- 9798683831271
- OCLC
- 1236215598
- Author
- McPherson, Robert S., 1947- author.
- Title
- Traditional Navajo teachings / Robert S. McPherson and Perry Juan Robinson.
- Publisher
- [Utah?] : [Robert S. McPherson], [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Added Author
- Robinson, Perry Juan, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-415