Kokopelli: The Making of an Icon - Softcover

Malotki, Ekkehart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803282958 ISBN 13: 9780803282957

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2004

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"Informative and interesting."-Cathy Mencin, Denver Westerners Roundup -- Cathy Mencin * Denver Westerners Roundup *

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Kokopelli the flute player is one of the most popular icons that American culture has adopted from the Native peoples of North America. The Kokopelli name and image are everywhere, adorning everything from jewelry, welcome mats, T-shirts, and money clips to motels, freeway underpasses, nature trails, nightclubs, and string quartets. Kokopelli evokes mystery and wonder, ancient ceremonies and spirituality, Mother Earth and the purity of nature. But what exactly is Kokopelli? Just how Native American is this ubiquitous flute player? In this fascinating book, the distinguished scholar of Hopi culture and history Ekkehart Malotki describes the development of the Kokopelli phenomenon in American mass culture from its beginning to Kokopelli's present status as pan-Southwestern icon. He explores the figure's connections with the Hopi kachina god Kookopoeloe and Maahu, the cicada, and discusses how this rock-art image has been appropriated and misunderstood. Kokopelli sheds light on a little-understood aspect of Hopi culture and testifies to the continuing power of Native cultures to spark the popular imagination and interest of outsiders.

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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0803282958
• ISBN 13: 9780803282957
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 177