The Boy Who Made Dragonfly: A Zuni Myth - Softcover

Hillerman, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826309100 ISBN 13: 9780826309105

Verlag: UNIV OF NEW MEXICO PR, 1993

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Book by Tony Hillerman

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"Although this book is an excellent one for children of all ages, it should not be reserved solely for them. An impressive work . . ." Although this book is an excellent one for children of all ages, it should not be reserved solely for them. An impressive work . . .

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As readers of Tony Hillerman's detective novels know, he is a skilled interpreter of southwestern Indian cultures. In this book, first published in 1972, he recounts a Zuni myth first recorded a century ago by the anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing. Hillerman's version of the story, written to be read by children ten years old and up, will have equal appeal for adults with an interest in Native American culture. "In our society," Hillerman explains, "this would be called a 'Bible story.' Like stories based on the Old Testament, this narrative is intended to teach both the history and morality of a people." It tells the consequences of a drought in which Zuni crops were ruined and the tribe was forced to accept charity from neighboring Hopis.

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• Verlag: UNIV OF NEW MEXICO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0826309100
• ISBN 13: 9780826309105
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 81