We Will Dance Our Truth Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances

Name: We Will Dance Our Truth Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances
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ISBN: 9780803253445

ISBN-10: 0803253443

ISBN-13: 9780803253445

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Authors: David Delgado Shorter

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In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive field study, Shorter’s interpretation of the community’s ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of “historical inscription” reveals new meanings of their legends of the Talking Tree, their Testamento narrative of myth and history, and their fabled deer dances, funerary rites, and church processions.Working collaboratively with Yoeme communities, Shorter has produced a scrupulous investigation that challenges received wisdom from both anthropological and…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 5/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 394
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.97" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

David Delgado Shorter is an associate professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.