A01=Leland C. Wyman
American Indians
art
Author_Leland C. Wyman
Blessingway rite
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ceremonial
ceremonial procedures
drypaintings
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ethnobotany
Indigenous Peoples
mythology
Native ceremony
Navajo
Navajo Nation
navajo religion
North American Indians
prayers
psychology
rite
ritual songs
rituals
spirituality
Product details
- ISBN 9780816535835
- Weight: 940g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2017
- Publisher: University of Arizona Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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An outstanding work crafted from the handwritten pages of translations from the Navajo of the late Father Berard Haile giving three separate versions of the Blessingway rite with each version consisting of a prose text accompanied by the ritual songs and prayers. Valuable insights into the character and use of the Blessingway rite; its ceremonial procedures, its mythology, and its drypaintings.
The University of Arizona Press’s Century Collection employs the latest in digital technology to make previously out-of-print books from our notable backlist available once again. Enriching historical and cultural experiences for readers, this collection offers these volumes unaltered from their original publication and in affordable digital or paperback formats.
The University of Arizona Press’s Century Collection employs the latest in digital technology to make previously out-of-print books from our notable backlist available once again. Enriching historical and cultural experiences for readers, this collection offers these volumes unaltered from their original publication and in affordable digital or paperback formats.
Leland C. Wyman, an outstanding authority on Navajo religion, extended the research of his scholarship from his primary field of physiology to anthropology and art, folklore, and folk literature. Wyman, a Ph.D., in Biology from Harvard, taught and did research in physiology at Boston University for four decades, meanwhile engaging in many cross-disciplinary projects. In the early 1930s he began to write on Navajo ceremonialism and mythology, and soon teamed up with anthropologists and other specialists to publish on Navajo medicine, ethnobotany, ethnoentomology, psychology, and art.
