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Title Landscapes of origin in the Americas [electronic resource] : creation narratives linking ancient places and present communities / edited by Jessica Joyce Christie.

Imprint Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

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Description vii, 203 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Jessica Joyce Christie -- The Center of the World : The Principle People and the Great Smoky Mountains / Christopher Arris Oakley -- Xeroxed on Stone : Times of Origin and the Navajo Holy People in Canyon Landscapes / Polly Schaafsma, Will Tsosie -- Nuvagantu, "Where Snow Sits'" : Origin Mountains of the Southern Paiutes / Richard Stoffle, Richard Arnold, Kathleen Van Vlack, Larry Eddy, Betty Cornelius -- Origin Narratives, Places, and Concepts among the 'Namgis, a Kwakwaka' wakw Group in British Columbia, Canada / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Malinalco : A Place between Heaven and Earth / Manuel Aguilar-Moreno -- The Map of the Province of Mani: A Record of Landscape and Northern Maya Lowland Concepts of Origin / Merideth Paxton -- Ancestral Presence at the Navel of the World : Francisco Sojuel and Santiago Atitlan / Allen J. Christenson -- Landscapes as Metaphor : Resources, Language, and Myths of Dynastic Origin on the Pacific Coast from the Santa Valley (Peru) to Manabi (Ecuador) / Patricia J. Netherly -- Inka Pacariqtambo : It Depends Which Eyes Are Looking at It / Jessica Joyce Christie.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Indians -- Origin.
Indian mythology -- America.
Sacred space -- America.
Indians -- Folklore.
Creation -- Mythology -- America.
Physical geography -- America.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Christie, Jessica Joyce, 1956-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780817316730 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817316736 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817355609 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081735560X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780817382476 (electronic bk.)
081738247X (electronic bk.)

 
    
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