The Short Swift Time of Gods on Earth - The Hohokam Chronicles (Paper)

1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-520-08468-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the "Hohokam Chronicles," is the most complete natively articulated Pima creation narrative ever written and a rare example of a single-narrator myth.

Now this extraordinary work, composed of thirty-six separate stories, is presented in its entirety for the first time. Beautifully expressed, the narrative constitutes a kind of scripture for a native church, beginning with the creation of the universe out of the void and ending with the establishment in the sixteenth century of present-day villages. Central to the story is the murder/resurrection of a god-man, Siuuhu, who summoned the Pimas and Papagos (Tohono O'odham) as his army of vengeance and brought about the conquest of his murderers, the ancient Hohokam.

Donald Bahr extensively annotates the text and supplements it with other Pima-Papago versions of similar stories. Important as a social and historic document, this book adds immeasurably to the growing body of Native American literature and to our knowledge of the development of Pima-Papago culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bahr, Donald

Smith, Juan

Allison, William Smith

Hayden, Julian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

0 PRELUDE, THE FONT TEXT
1 GENESIS
2 THE FLOOD
3 NEW CREATION AND CORN
4 THE WHORE
5 ORIGIN OF WINE AND IRRIGATION
6 MORNING GREEN CHIEF AND THE WITCH
7 FEATHER BRAIDED CHIEF AND THE GAMBLER
8 SIUUHU'S DEATH AND RESURRECTI0N
9 THE C0NQUEST UNTIL BUZARD
10 THE C0NQUEST UNTIL SIWAN WA'AKI
11 AFTER THE CONQUEST

Conclusion: Mythologies
Appendix: Correlation of Conquests
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Bahr is Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University and author of Pima-Papago Ritual Oratory (1975) and Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (1974).