Dancing Gods (Kindle Edition)

by Erna Fergusson (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This is a first person look at a wide range of Pueblo, Hopi, Navajo, Zuñ, and Apache ceremonials in the late 1920s. This book is both an ethnographic document and a classic of Southwestern literature.

Erna Fergusson (1888-1964), a native New Mexican, was a talented writer and journalist. She earned a master's degree in Latin American studies at Columbia University, and worked for the Red Cross in rural northern New Mexico. She then worked for the Albuquerque Tribune. She founded Koshare Tours, a pioneering tour of Arizona and New Mexico Native American ceremonials. This book grew out of that experience.

Fergusson's writing style is spare and vigorous, filled with a sense of place and a deep appreciation of the desert high plateau region. Dancing Gods is well researched and sympathetic, and remarkably free of attitudes patronizing or idealizing Native Americans. --J.B. Hare

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 261 KB
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Evinity Publishing Inc; 1.0 edition (June 16, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002DPU0PK
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #123,629 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)