| The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection Contributor(s): Davis, Nancy Y. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393322300 ISBN-13: 9780393322309 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2001 Annotation: Did a group of 13th century Japanese journey to the American Southwest, there to merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe? That is the question proposed by an anthropologist in "The Zuni Enigma". 16 illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | Native American |
| Dewey: 970.019 |
| LCCN: 99038955 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.54" W x 8.24" (0.87 lbs) 350 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Did a group of thirteenth-century Japanese merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe? For many years, anthropologists have understood the Zuni in the American Southwest to occupy a special place in Native American culture and ethnography. Their language, religion, and blood type are startlingly different from all other tribes. Most puzzling, the Zuni appear to have much in common with the people of Japan. In a book with groundbreaking implications, Dr. Nancy Yaw Davis examines the evidence underscoring the Zuni enigma and suggests the circumstances that may have led Japanese on a religious quest--searching for the legendary middle world of Buddhism--across the Pacific to the American Southwest more than seven hundred years ago. |
