Chelsea House Publishers, 2005. — 126 p. — (Indians of North America). The Zuni was the first Pueblo tribe to encounter the Spanish, when Franciscan missionaries entered present-day western New Mexico in the late 1530s. They are one of the few tribes in North America that has remained largely autonomous. They still reside in their original homeland and have been able to hold on to...
New York: Dover Publications, 1972. — 134 p. Penetrating study of Pueblo ceramic art—materials, methods, decorative elements, use of color, etc.—plus ideas, feelings and attitudes toward craft. 38 full-page plates. 14 plates in red, white and black.
University Press of Mississippi, 2007. — 266 p. To visiting geologists Black Rock, New Mexico, is a basaltic escarpment and an ideal natural laboratory. To hospital workers, Black Rock is a picturesque place to earn a living. To the Zuni, the mesas, arroyos, and the rock itself are a stage on which the passion of their elders is relived. William A. Dodge explores how a shared...
Barakaldo Books, 2020. — 282 p. Teva Village, the Tewa-speaking community in northern Arizona, is the easternmost pueblo on the Hopi Reservation. It is one of three pueblos on First Mesa; the other two communities are Shoshonean Hopi in speech and culture. Although the inhabitants of Tewa Village speak another language and are set off culturally from the Hopi people, nothing...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. — 104 p. This case study is unusual. It was written by a man who knows Hano, the Tewa Indian community of which he writes, in a somewhat different way than most anthropologists know pueblo communities. He is accepted as a friend, as an insider, and speaks the language fluently. He never violates this friendship and acceptance in what he writes...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. — 224 p. An authoritative treatment of the social, cultural, and ethnohistorical data on both the Eastern and Western Pueblos! The information contained in this case study is the result of the author's lifetime spent among the Pueblos. "I have lived in or visited every village small and large from the Hopi towns of lower and upper Moencopi in...
Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. — 280 p. This book is an excellent example of detailed research of both documented print sources and personal interviews, photographs and sketches. Erdoes traces the history of the Pueblo Indians from prehistoric times to the mid-1970's and provides information about their unique lifestyle and how they have struggled to maintain it. His straightforward...
University of New Mexico Press, 1988. — 314 p. One of the most remarkable features of life in the Southwest is the presence of Native American religious ceremonies in communities that are driving distance from Sunbelt cities. Many of these ceremonies are open to the public and Dancing Gods is the best single reference for visitors to dances at the Rio Grande Pueblos, Zuni...
University of New Mexico Press, 1988. — 314 p. One of the most remarkable features of life in the Southwest is the presence of Native American religious ceremonies in communities that are driving distance from Sunbelt cities. Many of these ceremonies are open to the public and Dancing Gods is the best single reference for visitors to dances at the Rio Grande Pueblos, Zuni...
Penguin Classics, 2015. — 240 p. — (With an Introduction and Edition of Peter Nabaokov). Edward Proctor Hunt, a Pueblo Indian man, was born in 1861 in the mesa-top village of Acoma, New Mexico, and initiated into several secret societies, only to later break with his people’s social and religious codes. In 1928, he recited his version of the origin myth of the Acoma Indians to...
Museum of New Mexico Press, 1970. — 308 p. A study of the music and dance of the Tewa Pueblos in New Mexico. Approach to the Study of Tewa Ceremony Ceremonial Ecology Symbolic Dimensions of the Setting Time The Annual Ceremonial Cycle The Performers Social Interaction Ritual Preludes and Postludes Choreographic and Musical Patterns Circuit Orientation Horizontal Formations Body...
University of New Mexico Press, 2015. — 224 p. The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes. Here more than one hundred of Marmon’s photos showcase his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people. Along with Marmon’s own...
University of New Mexico Press, 2015. — 224 p. The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes. Here more than one hundred of Marmon’s photos showcase his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people. Along with Marmon’s own...
Viking - Penguin Publishing Group, 2015. — 560 p. A compelling portrait of cultural transition and assimilation via the saga of one Acoma Pueblo Indian family. Born in 1861 in New Mexico's Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people's ancient codes to become a shopkeeper...
University of Chicago Press, 1972. — 212 p. This book is not a descriptive monograph, but an essay in cultural analysis, one which views culture as a system of symbols and which takes form under the impact of modern structural theory. A theme which runs throughout is the concept of dual organization, a structure which once characterized ten to fifteen percent of all known human...
University of New Mexico Press, 2006. — 240 p. Canyon Gardens is the long-awaited sequel to Anasazi Architecture and American Design (UNM Press). It takes a new look at ancient and modern Puebloan gardening and landscape design approaches. Part One examines early Puebloan landscapes in detail, including compact gardens and terraces, site planning, the integration of farming and...
University of California Press, 1991. — 268 p. When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been widely acknowledged as a classic...
University of California Press, 1991. — 268 p. When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been widely acknowledged as a classic...
University of New Mexico Press, 1992. — 324 p. The Zuni Man-Woman focuses on the life of We'wha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous two-spirit person (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in all the Turtle Island Indigenous nations history. Through We'wha's exceptional life, Will Roscoe creates a vivid picture of an alternative...
Translated by Alvina Quam. — University of New Mexico Press, 2015. — 272 p. Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Selected by the Zuni people themselves, the tales told here preserve their cultural traditions--from the...
Translated and edited by Michael P. Steinberg — Cornell University Press, 2016. — 128 p. First published 1995. Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929) is recognized not only as one of the century’s preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg’s 1923 lecture, first published in German in...
Translated and edited by Michael P. Steinberg — Cornell University Press, 2016. — 128 p. First published 1995. Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929) is recognized not only as one of the century’s preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg’s 1923 lecture, first published in German in...
University of New Mexico Press, 2018. — 368 p. Puebloan sociocultural formations of the past and present are the subject of the essays collected here. The contributors draw upon the insights of archaeology, ethnology, and linguistic anthropology to examine social history and practice, including kinship groups, ritual sodalities, architectural forms, economic exchange,...
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