Rainhouse and Ocean: Speeches for the Papago Year - Softcover

Underhill, Ruth M.; Bahr, Donald M.; Lopez, Baptisto; Pancho, Jose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816517746 ISBN 13: 9780816517749

Publisher: University of Arizona Press, 1997

Synopsis

The Tohono O'odham of southern Arizona, formerly known as the Papago, have made a life in a place that many would consider uninhabitable. These desert people were converted to Catholicism by early Spanish missionaries, yet they retain much of their earlier lifeway as a means of continuing adaptation to their desert environment. This book is a restudy of speeches and ritual information collected by anthropologist Underhill beginning in 1931 and published in her book Papago Indian Religion (1946). It describes the Native—as opposed to the Christian—side of the yearly ritual cycle of the Tohono O'odham, showing how seven rites form a system of meanings that grew from the relation between these people and their desert homeland. The rites presented focus on the summer wine feast, salt pilgrimage, hunting, war, and flood.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Tohono O'odham of southern Arizona, formerly known as the Papago, have made a life in a place that many would consider uninhabitable. These desert people were converted to Catholicism by early Spanish missionaries, yet they retain much of their earlier lifeway as a means of continuing adaptation to their desert environment. Originally published in 1979, this book is a restudy of speeches and ritual information collected by anthropologist Underhill beginning in 1931 and published, in English only, in her book Papago Indian Religion (1946). It describes the Native - as opposed to the Christian - side of the yearly ritual cycle of the Tohono O'odham, showing how seven rites form a system of meanings that grew from the relation between these people and their desert homeland. The rites presented focus on the summer wine feast, salt pilgrimage, hunting, war, and flood.

About the Author:

Anthropologist Donald M. Bahr has studied the Tohono O'odham extensively.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0816517746
• ISBN 13: 9780816517749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 153