ERIC Number: ED071785
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Publication Date: 1972
Pages: 245
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The Zunis: Self-Portrayals.
Lewis, Virginia, Ed.
The oral literature of the Zuni people has been recorded by major Zuni storytellers in cooperation with the Duke Indian Oral History Project of the University of Utah. Included in this book are 46 stories concerning the Zuni creation myth, the rituals of masked dances, farming and hunting practices, and battles with Navajos and Apaches. The contents are classified in 6 sections: (1) society, (2) history, (3) fables, (4) fables of moral instruction, (5) religion, and (6) war and defense. (FF)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Fables, History, Legends, Mythology, Religion, Sociocultural Patterns, War
The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, N.M. ($7.95 cloth binding; $3.95 paper binding)
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