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Pieces of White Shell
by Terry Tempest Williams
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780826309693 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate their own history, traditions, and sense of how to live well.
To know the oral tradition of Native American people is to feel the sensitivity and sensuality of language in its clearest motion and light, and this Williams has achieved in her appreciation of that tradition.Simon Ortiz
"Pieces of White Shell" is vibrantfull of risk, gentleness, wonder, and humility.Barry Lopez
This book is both informative and enormously evocative. Exposition and description are powerfully reinforced by recurrent passages in the mode of poetry and drama.Brewster Ghiselin
Synopsis:
Introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780826309693
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- University of New Mexico Press
- Location:
- Albuquerque :
- Subject:
- Native American Studies
- Subject:
- Indians of north america
- Subject:
- United States - State & Local
- Subject:
- Navajo Indians
- Subject:
- Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
- Subject:
- United States - State & Local - General
- Copyright:
- c198
- Edition Description:
- Bibliography: p. 159-162.
- Series Volume:
- 99-481, pt. 2
- Publication Date:
- May 1987
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 176
- Dimensions:
- 7.98x5.38x.46 in. .50 lbs.
