| Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam: A Native American Poetry Volume 14 Contributor(s): Evers, Larry (Author), Molina, Felipe S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816509956 ISBN-13: 9780816509959 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Native American - Poetry |
| Dewey: 897.4 |
| LCCN: 86019313 |
| Series: Sun Tracks |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.58" W x 9.4" (1.00 lbs) 239 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the American Folklore Society's Chicago Folklore Prize Yaqui regard song as a kind of lingua franca of the intelligent universe. It is through song that experience with other living things is made intelligible and accessible to the human community. Deer songs often take the form of dialogues in which the deer and others in the wilderness world speak with one another or with the deer singers themselves. It is in this way, according to one deer singer, that "the wilderness world listens to itself even today." In this book authentic ceremonial songs, transcribed in both Yaqui and English, are the center of a fascinating discussion of the Deer Song tradition in Yaqui culture. Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam thus enables non-Yaquis to hear these dialogues with the wilderness world for the first time. |