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Yaqui Myths and Legends
Ruth Warner Giddings
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Description for Yaqui Myths and Legends
Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFCK; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
No thorough collection or study has been made of the folk traditions of the Yaquis. Only about a score of Yaqui stories are to be found in published form.
It is known that Yaqui society has been influenced strongly by Spanish and Mexican culture, judging from indications in historical records and from studies of the modern Yaquis.
In making this collection of stories it was the objective to illustrate two things: (1) the nature of the folk literature of the Yaquis and (2) the influences which successive foreign contacts have exerted upon Yaqui folklore.
Collections were made in Potam, ... Read more
No thorough collection or study has been made of the folk traditions of the Yaquis. Only about a score of Yaqui stories are to be found in published form.
It is known that Yaqui society has been influenced strongly by Spanish and Mexican culture, judging from indications in historical records and from studies of the modern Yaquis.
In making this collection of stories it was the objective to illustrate two things: (1) the nature of the folk literature of the Yaquis and (2) the influences which successive foreign contacts have exerted upon Yaqui folklore.
Collections were made in Potam, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816504671
SKU
V9780816504671
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Reviews for Yaqui Myths and Legends
These stories are not curiosities, dead fairy tales. . . . Yaqui Myths and Legends is the spirit of the land—the living oral tradition of a people." —Journal of Arizona History "Forthright in character, they are often grim, sometimes humorous, occasionally pointing a moral, but primarily entertaining." —Westways "Yaqui Myths And Legends is a compilation of sixty-one tales ... Read more