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Singing for Power: The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona (Sun Tracks) - Softcover
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The Tohono O'odham Indians of Arizona - called Papago by the Spanish, Bean Eaters by neighboring tribes - have cultivated song much as another people might exalt oratory or craft; yet for the Papago, song was not simply self-expression but rather a form of magic that constrained the powers of nature to human will. Ruth Underhill published the songs she heard sung by Papago elders more than half a century ago, and Singing for Power has since become a classic of Native American literature.
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"Miss Underhill has given us here, in as accurate a free rendering as the structure of English permits, a group of songs which the Papago sing for power--to make themselves, so they think, better able to cope with the difficult environment in which they live."--The Nation
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Singing for Power: The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona (Sun Tracks)
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University of Arizona Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0816514011
ISBN 13: 9780816514014
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Singing for Power
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University of Arizona, Tucson, 1993
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. B/W Drawings (illustrator). First Thus. SUBTITLED : ` The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona '. 158 pages - originally published in 1938. Well illustrated with b/w drawings. Words to many of the songs are also presented. Read more about pinole, owl-meeter, temporary guardian, and Gulf of California. Cond : Paper wrapper is light orange with black lettering. Front cover illustration is Mike Chiago's 1990 work called `Rain Dance '. Spine fine, binding tight, colours bright. No names nor nmarks. Light gen. wear. Clean. Excellent reference copy. Quote (p. 67) : " It is not a war of the Papago nation, for there is no nation. Each village has a few neighbors whom it calls kin and upon whom, out of all the villages of the Desert People, it relies as comrades. Three or four comrades provide a force of twenty men. That is the punitive expedition. The council sends to each of the comrades a youth carrying a stick with ten notches. That means ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 008708
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Singing for Power: The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona (Sun Tracks)
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Singing for Power: The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona (Sun Tracks)
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