Masked Gods: Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialism - Softcover

Waters, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804006415 ISBN 13: 9780804006415

Publisher: Swallow Press, 1950

Synopsis

Masked Gods is a vast book, a challenging and profoundly original account of the history, legends, and ceremonialism of the Navaho and Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Following a brief but vivid history of the two tribes through the centuries of conquest, the book turns inward to the meaning of Indian legends and ritual ― Navaho songs, Pueblo dances, Zuni kachina ceremonies. Enduring still, these rituals and ceremonies express a view of life, of man's place in the creation, which is compared with Taoism and Buddhism ― and with the aggressive individualism of the Western world.

About this title

About the Author:

Frank Waters (1902-1995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Publication date: 1950
• ISBN 10: 0804006415
• ISBN 13: 9780804006415
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432