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A01=Juan Smith
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A01=William Smith Allison
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Author_Donald Bahr
Author_Juan Smith
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Author_William Smith Allison
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conquest of murderers
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murder and resurrection of god man
pima creation narrative
pima papago versions
scripture for native church
single narrator myth
siuuhu
snaketown
social and historic document
the ancient hohokam
thirty six separate stories
traditional creation narrative
two pima indians
Product details
- ISBN 9780520084681
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the "Hohokam Chronicles", is the most complete natively articulated Pima creation narrative ever written and a rare example of a single-narrator myth. Now this extraordinary work, composed of thirty-six separate stories, is presented in its entirety for the first time. Beautifully expressed, the narrative constitutes a kind of scripture for a native church, beginning with the creation of the universe out of the void and ending with the establishment in the sixteenth century of present-day villages. Central to the story is the murder/resurrection of a god-man, Siuuhu, who summoned the Pimas and Papagos (Tohono O'odham) as his army of vengeance and brought about the conquest of his murderers, the ancient Hohokam.
Donald Bahr extensively annotates the text and supplements it with other Pima-Papago versions of similar stories. Important as a social and historic document, this book adds immeasurably to the growing body of Native American literature and to our knowledge of the development of Pima-Papago culture.
Donald Bahr is Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University and author of Pima-Papago Ritual Oratory (1975) and Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (1974).
