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The Hohokam Chronicles
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In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the "Hohokam Chronicles," is the most complete natively articulated Pima creation narrative ever written and a rare example of a single-narrator myth. The narrative constitutes a kind of scripture for a native church, beginning with the creation of the universe out of the void and ending with the establishment in the 16th century of present-day villages. Central to the story is the murder/resurrection of a god-man, Siuuhu, who summoned the Pimas and Papagos (Tohono O'odham) as his army of vengeance and brought about the conquest of his murderers, the ancient Hohokam. Donald Bahr annotates the text and supplements it with other Pima-Papago versions of similar stories. Important as a social and historic document, this book adds to the growing body of Native American literature and to our knowledge of the development of Pima-Papago culture.

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Donald Bahr is Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University and author of Pima-Papago Ritual Oratory (1975) and Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (1974).
Release date NZ
September 9th, 1994
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  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
352
Dimensions
178x254x20
ISBN-13
9780520084681
Product ID
7698949

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