About this title: In this strange and wonderful book, thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona--a people who regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America--freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form. The Hopi kept this view a secret for countless centuries, and anthropologists have long struggled to understand it. ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. Stated 1st Ballantine printing. Good condition overall. Worn cover, a few small rips on edges. Pages tanned. Some staining to top and bottom fore edge corners. Owner's name on paste down or fly. Some writing on inside covers. Good reading copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1971
Description: Good. Paperback. Cover shows light wear and soiling to edges, minor corner creasing. Spine is lightly sun-faded. Pages are sunned to edges, no markings. Binding is excellent. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Ballantine
Description: Very Good. B000KMFEXG [1st Printing] Ships, well packaged and very quickly, from MI. A detailed description will be posted soon, but please feel free to contact us with questions about the condition or anything else, in the meantime. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140045277ISBN:0140045279
Description: Good. Books have varying amounts of wear and highlighting. Usually ships within 24 hours in quality packaging. Satisfaction guaranteed. read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 1977. Paperback. Reprint Ed. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. No dust jacket. read more
"I read this book to cap off all I've learned about the Ancestral Pueblo Native Americans. The Hopi are thought to be their descendants. The book takes you inside the Kiva to observe a bewildering array of ceremonies, rites and performances. The religion is complex and focused on natural events, not the least of which is rain. It also provides a backdrop of the Hopi's own creation story, flood story and ancient migrations and the formation of the many different clans. Clan symbols are often left in the petroglyphs and pictographs on the canyon walls."
"I misplaced the book, but I just found it again. Its cool, its like a bible of the Hopi religion and religious history. It was written by a man who lived with the Hopi for decades, and is supposidly written in their words (translated of course). Its nicely meditative, as well as interestinf in the fact that you see similarities between their religious stories and Chrstian ones."
"This is an extremely boring book about an extremely interesting subject: the myths, legends, ceremonies and history of the Hopi people. The main problem is paragraphs like this:
The Fire and Flute clans calling their settlement Kawestima; the Spider Clan, Kokpnki; and the Snake and Lizard Clan, Chukiva. They moved to a cliff called Pavakyki, then the Fire Clan moved to Oraivi.
Then a few pages later, the author will refer to Chukiva which you no longer know from Pavakyki.
The book has the look of a 1950s geography text, with strange back and white, out-of- focus pictures and goofy line drawings.
Things pick up in Part 4: History --mostly about the interaction of the Hopi people with the Anglos. It's not a pretty picture ... "An invading people whose cultural premise was the primary sanctity of property rights over human rights.." who, in a final act of cruelty, take away the Hopi children and put them in boarding schools in order to "take the Indian out of them."
Myths, legends, ceremonies, history - it's all in there but sadly, the book lacks soul."
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