Navajo Lifeways: Contemporary Issues, Ancient Knowledge - Hardcover

Schwarz, Maureen Trudelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806133104 ISBN 13: 9780806133102

Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001

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Book by Schwarz Maureen Trudelle

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"I think what is always really amazing to me is that Navajo are never amazed by anything that happens. Because it is like in a lot of our stories they are already there."--Sunny Dooley, Navajo Storyteller

During the final decade of the twentieth century, Navajo people had to confront a number of challenges, from unexplained illness, the effects of uranium mining, and problem drinking to threats to their land rights and spirituality. Yet no matter how alarming these issues, Navajo people made sense of them by drawing guidance from what they regarded as their charter for life, their origin stories.

Through extensive interviews, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz allows Navajo to speak for themselves on the ways they find to respond to crises and chronic issues. In capturing what Navajo say and think about themselves, Schwarz presents this southwestern people’s perceptions, values, and sense of place in the world.

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• Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0806133104
• ISBN 13: 9780806133102
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288