| Sacred Land, Sacred View: Navajo Perceptions of the Four Corners Region Contributor(s): McPherson, Robert S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1560850086 ISBN-13: 9781560850083 Publisher: University Press of Colorado OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1992 Annotation: The more one learns about the Dine, or Navajo, the more one inevitably admires their way of perceiving and interpreting what lies just beyond the focus of ordinary human vision. Their renowned respect for nature and way of living in harmony with the environment derive from their religious traditions, from reading the landscape as a spiritual text. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 299.782 |
| LCCN: 91033322 |
| Series: Charles Redd Monographs in Western History |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.01" W x 9" (0.60 lbs) 152 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Arizona - Geographic Orientation - Colorado - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico - Geographic Orientation - Utah |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dramatic geographical formations tower over the Four Corners country in the southwestern United States. The mountains, cliffs, and sandstone spires, familiar landmarks for anglo travelers, orient Navajos both physically and spiritually. In Sacred Land, Sacred View, Robert McPherson describes the mythological significance of these landmarks. Navajos read their environment as a spiritual text: the gods created the physical world to help, teach, and protect people through an integrated system of beliefs represented in nature. The author observes that the Middle East is of "no greater import to Christians than the Dine's holy land is to Navajos." He continues: "Sacred mountains circumscribe the land, containing the junction of the San Juan River and Mancos Creek, where Born for Water invoked supernatural aid to overcome danger and death and where, at the Bear's Ears formation, good triumphed over evil." The more one learns about the Dine, the more one inevitably admires their way of perceiving and interpreting what lies just beyond the focus of human vision. Their renowned respect for nature and way of living in harmony with the environment derive from their religious traditions. |