Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam
Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam

Author: Larry Evers

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2023-01-17

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 081655255X

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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.

We Will Dance Our Truth
We Will Dance Our Truth

Author: David Delgado Shorter

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0803226462

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In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive field study, Shorter's interpretation of the community's ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of "historical inscription" reveals new meanings of their legends of the Talking Tree, their narrative of myth-and-history known as the Testamento, their fabled deer dances, funerary rites, and church processions.

Yaqui Myths and Legends
Yaqui Myths and Legends

Author:

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780816504671

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Sixty-one tales narrated by Yaquis reflect this people's sense of the sacred and material value of their territory.

The Yaquis
The Yaquis

Author: Edward H. Spicer

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2023-04-11

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0816551081

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This study is based on a thirty-month residence in Yaqui communities in both Arizona and Sonora and consists of integrating information from documented historical writing, of some primary source documents, of three centuries of contemporary descriptions of Yaqui customs and individuals, and of anthropological studies based on direct observation.

By Means of Performance
By Means of Performance

Author: Richard Schechner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-05-25

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780521339155

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The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour - dance, ritual, conflict situation, sports, storytelling and display behaviour - in a variety of circumstances and cultures. It considers such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behaviour is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships between ritual aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theatre and dance. The volume brings together essays from leading anthropologists, artists and performance theorists to provide a definitive introduction to the burgeoning field of performance studies. It will be of value to scholars, teachers and students of anthropology, theatre, folklore, semiotics and performance studies.

Indian Dances of North America
Indian Dances of North America

Author: Reginald Laubin

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780806121727

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Descriptions of the dances, costumes, body decorations, and musical accompaniment supplement information on the cultural background of Indian dancing