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Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico

Ruth Murray Underhill

Religion & Spirituality

University of Chicago Press

Monograph on Papago ceremonial songs calling upon the powers of Nature so as to constrain them to man's will. First published 1931; assembled from 14 months of fieldwork by anthropologist Ruth Murray Underhill (1883 - 1984), and illustrated by three young Indian boys. The songs, magical in intent, state desired events in every department of life with the mood varying accordingly; some solemn, others wistful, humorous and even wild.

Singing for Power : The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona

History

Americas

University of California Press

A groundbreaking blend of ethnographic fieldwork and American Indian oral history by a pioneering female anthropologist. Anthropologist Ruth M. Underhill (1883 1984), a widely acknowledged expert on Native American life, published The Autobiography of a Papago Woman in 1936, the first-known oral history of an American Indian woman. The story of Maria Chona, a Papago (Tohono O'odham) woman, is a sequence of intimate episodes and crises from her traditional and nontraditional life, including childbearing, marriages, family and reservation life, song making, and knowledge of practical medicine. The strong Papago fear of women's impurity restricted her, and all females, from having an active role in ceremonial life, yet her independent spirit and dynamic personality led her to challenge tribal taboos. The rare autobiography of Chona, which forms the core of this historically significant case study, appears in Part II of Papago Woman. Underhill adds interpretive analysis, historical background, and absorbing ethnological descriptions in Part I as well as commentary on Papago views on child training, women, love, and the continuing effects of Roosevelt's New Deal in Part III.
 Useful student study questions (by Catherine Lavender) are included.
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Papago Woman: An Intimate Portrait of American Indian Culture

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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