Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father: Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Trudy Griffin-Pierce, N. Scott MomadayPublish date:1995-03-01Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Unm PressISBN-13:9780826316349ISBN-10:826316344UPC:9780826316349Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Native American StudiesSize:8.99 x 5.99 x 0.71 inchesWeight:1.01Product ID:SCF44HKRN7
Explores the circularity of Navajo thought through studies of sandpaintings, chantway myths, and stories reflected in the constellations.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Unm PressISBN-13:9780826316349ISBN-10:826316344UPC:9780826316349Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Native American StudiesSize:8.99 x 5.99 x 0.71 inchesWeight:1.01Product ID:SCF44HKRN7
Trudy Griffin-Pierce (1949-2009) was an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She was the author of several books on American Indian cosmology. N. Scott Momaday (1934-2023) was a writer, poet, storyteller, and illustrator who won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, House Made of Dawn. Kiowa by way of Jemez Pueblo, he was the author of the classic Kiowa origin story The Way to Rainy Mountain and several books of poetry, including In the Bear's House, In the Presence of the Sun, and Again the Far Morning (all from UNM Press).
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