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227 pages with figures, facsimiles and tables. Quarto (11" x 9 1/2") bound in original publisher's with gilt lettering to spine and Smithsonian Institution logo to cover. Contributions to Anthropology number 5. First edition. Pueblo society places a very considerable emphasis on knowledge, but it also dictates how this knowledge is to be acquired and used. Joe Lente was a rebel. In a society where, as one anthropologist put it, "disobedience is a sacrilege and heresy as well as treason" (White, 1932, p. 11), he obviously was not attracted by the Pueblo road to recognition and power a priestly vocation and this despite his early involvement with "ceremonial members" (especially his father and grandfather) and ceremonial activities. Indeed he used his abilities in the very way that from his earliest years he had learned would surely bring dire punishment even death: he disclosed the most sacred and secret teachings of his society to an outsider. The wonder is that while he breached a basic principle of…
Read More The Social and Ceremonial Organization of the Cochiti (Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association, Number 33) by Schiff Goldfrank, Esther - 1974
by Schiff Goldfrank, Esther
The Social and Ceremonial Organization of the Cochiti (Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association, Number 33)
by Schiff Goldfrank, Esther
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Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1927 original. 129 pp + folding geneaologies, in original wrappers. Some sunning to spine and edges of wrappers, title hand-written on on spine; contents clean and sound. A study of the Cochiti peopl, including aspects of social organization, religious concepts, ritual and ceremonial patterns.
- Bookseller Walkabout Books (US)
- Format/Binding Softcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
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- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Kraus Reprint
- Place of Publication Millwood, NY
- Date Published 1974
- Keywords Native Americans
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