West of the Thirties: Discoveries Among the Navajo and Hopi - Softcover

Hall, Edward Twitchell

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ISBN 10: 0385424221 ISBN 13: 9780385424226

Verlag: Anchor Books, 1995

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1937, the great American  anthropologist Edward T. Hall lived and worked on  reservations in the Southwest, a frontier where four  cultures--Navajo, Hopi, Hispanic, and Anglo--clashed.  Re-creating that stark and haunting landscape, Hall  pieces together a firsthand account of two proud  worlds--the frugal, Pueblo-dwelling Hopi with their  isolated villages high on the mesa tops and their  deeply felt religious faith and the Navajos, whose  rhythm and ceremonious forms of respect Hall  learned as he worked with them. In these early  experiences, as Hall discovered the deeply human logic of  these tribes, he began to recognize how culture  itself, not only theirs but his own, was at work in  each person's behavior. The respect he felt and  diplayed won him a friendly Navajo nickname--Chiz  Chili, meaning Slim Curly Hair--and a mentor, the

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• Verlag: Anchor Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385424221
• ISBN 13: 9780385424226
• Einband: Tapa blanda