Spatial Cosmology (Duality), Lodges (Pueblos), Collective Ceremonialism (Kivas, Katcinas. Snake/Antelope Ceremony), Pottery, Horticulture: The Hopi and the Pueblo of the Southwest

Dates: May 3 and 5 (2 sessions)

• Readings:

  • Oswalt 2006: 269-303

  • Gill: 11-14, 32-35, 43-45, 51-56, 67-68, 98-101, and 105-111(review)

• Lecture Handouts:

  • Hopi Ceremonialism: Katcinas and Kiva Symbolism

  • Hopi Ceremonialism: Snake-Antelope Ceremony

  • Hopi Terms and Concepts

• Video:

  • Hopi(18:30 min.; this 1997 Museum of Northern Arizona production provides an overview of the Hopi, their family and work lives, and their ceremonies.)

  • Maria: Black Pottery of San Ildefonso Pueblo (28 min., which documents the famous artist making, painting and firing her pottery)

  • Hopi Eagle Dance (YouTube 1:35 min.)

  • Buffalo Dance (YouTube 1:30 min.)

  • Words and Place: Oral Literature of the American Southwest (various films on the Navajo, Yaqui, Apache, Hopi and Laguna Pueblo communities; a 1970s University of Arizona and KUAT-TV Project)

• Supplemental:

  • Hopi Overview Still Images

   

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