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Pima-Papago Christianity

Journal of the Southwest30 (2)Published In 1988 • Pages: 132-167

By: Bahr, Donald M..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper consists of two parts. Part 1 describes the history of Christianity among the Pima-Papago, while part 2 places today's fiestas in the context of the rest of today's (i, e., late twentieth century)Christianity. The key point of the first part is that the ancestors of today's people Christianized themselves without the aid of missionaries in roughly the fifty years from 1850-1900, before their reservations were fully established. Therefore, today's practices are a folk creation, or at least stem from a fifty-year era of folk Christianization (p. 133). This is the basic premise of this article, which is explained more fully in the text.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
History
Organized ceremonial
Religious denominations
Congregations
Missions
Spirits and gods
Music
Cultural participation
Acculturation and culture contact
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
O'odham
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2010
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Southwest and Basin
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
article
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Ethnologist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
4: Excellent Secondary Data
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
John Beierle; 2010
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1600-1980
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Southern Arizona, United States; Northern Sonora, Mexico
NotesAdditional notes
Donald M. Bahr
Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-167)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
87643843
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Tohono O'odham Indians