Temporal Cosmology (The Fifth World), Healing Ceremonialism (Chantways): The Dine/Navajo and Apache of the Southwest
Readings:
Oswalt 2006: 340-380 or 2009: 336-373
Lecture Handouts:
Video:
Billy Yellow (18 min., this and the following clip, Beatrice, are from David Maybury-Lewis' 1992 Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World PBS series. Maybury-Lewis is a recently retired professor of anthropology from Harvard University.)
Beatrice (13 min.)
Seasons of the Navajo (57 min., this 1984 PBS film is about a year in the life of a traditional Navajo family living in Arizona's Canyon de Chelly. Focusing on the family's charismatic patriarch, the film follows the simple, earthy rhythms of Navajo life: ceremonies, extended family celebrations, weaving, farming - all taking place in the spectacular Four Corners area of the Navajo Reservation.)
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)
Kinaalda: A Navajo Rite of Passage (56 min. Film allows viewers access to one of the oldest and most sacred of all Navajo ceremonies. It also illustrates the complexity of living in two worlds. Film by Lena Carr)
Supplemental: