Black Rock : a Zuni cultural landscape and the meaning of place /
To visiting geologists, Black Rock, New Mexico, is a basaltic escarpment and an ideal natural laboratory. To hospital workers, it is a picturesque place to earn a living. To the Zuni, the mesas, arroyos, and the rock itself are a stage on which the passion of their elders is relived. This book explo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2007.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | To visiting geologists, Black Rock, New Mexico, is a basaltic escarpment and an ideal natural laboratory. To hospital workers, it is a picturesque place to earn a living. To the Zuni, the mesas, arroyos, and the rock itself are a stage on which the passion of their elders is relived. This book explores how a shared sense of place evolves over time and through multiple cultures that claim the landscape. |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604733150 1604733152 1282485229 9781282485228 9786612485220 6612485221 1621031462 9781621031468 |
