Book
The Tewa world: space, time, being, and becoming in a Pueblo society
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 1969 • Pages:
By: Ortiz, Alfonso.
Abstract
This monograph presents an account of the Tewa world view and the role of the dual organization in a functioning society. In this study Ortiz describes some of the major issues on dual orgnization as discussed by Lévi-Strauss and Maybury-Lewis, and where appropriate, critiques their individual approaches to the problem. Of particular interest in this work is the relationship of Tewa mythology to their world view, and the classification of all human and spiritual existence into a hierarchy of six categories, three human and three spiritual. The human categories constitute the Winter and Summer moieties, while the beings of the three spiritual categories together represent symbolic counterparts of the moieties. The integration of these elements into a study of Tewa ethnography constitutes the major portion of this document
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Social Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2008
- Field Date
- 1963-1967
- Coverage Date
- 1630-1967
- Coverage Place
- San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, United States
- Notes
- Alfonso Ortiz
- A revision of the author's thesis, University of Chicago
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186)
- LCCN
- 72094079
- LCSH
- Tewa Indians
- San Juan Pueblo (N.M.)