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Yaqui Life : The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian by Jane Holden Kelley, Rosalio Moisés and William Curry Holden (1991, Trade Paperback)
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A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian [The Tall Candle: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian]. Notes: First paperback printing of second edition. Ink owner stamp crossed out inside front cover, otherwise an excellent copy.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN-100803281757
ISBN-139780803281752
eBay Product ID (ePID)1129674
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitleYaqui Life : the Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian
Number of Pages262 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1991
TopicGeneral, Indigenous Studies
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science
AuthorJane Holden Kelley, Rosalio Moisés, William Curry Holden
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN76-056789
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal972.17004974
Edition DescriptionReprint
Synopsis"The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues through the last uprising in 1926, and ends with his] recollections of his life on a Texas farm from 1952 to 1969. The introduction by Professor Kelley adds scholarly analysis to the poignant autobiographical narrative."-Booklist "A powerful chronicle. . . . It deserves an important place in the annals of American Indian oral history and literature."-Bernard L. Fontana, New Mexico Historical Review "A valuable document . . . about the effects of the Di z Indian policy in Sonora on the human beings who were its object. It] tells the story of the social limbo created by the shattering of families and corruption of personal relations under the relentless pressures of the Yaqui deportation program."-Edward H. Spicer, Arizona and the West "The nightmare world of witchcraft and dream-dependence is one of the major fascinations of this strange and moving book. . . . Its understatement] acquires a kind of fascinating power, as does the laconic stoicism of the Yaqui himself."-Southern California Quarterly Jane Holden Kelley, a professor of archaeology at the University of Calgary, is the author of Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories (1978), also a Bison Book. Her father, William Curry Holden, a trained historian and anthropologist, met the Yaqui narrator of this chronicle, Rosalio Mois s, in 1934. They remained close friends until Mois s's death in 1969., "The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues through the last uprising in 1926, and ends with [his] recollections of his life on a Texas farm from 1952 to 1969. The introduction by Professor Kelley adds scholarly analysis to the poignant autobiographical narrative."-Booklist "A powerful chronicle...It deserves an important place in the annals of American Indian oral history and literature."-Bernard L. Fontana, New Mexico Historical Review "A valuable document ...about the effects of the Diaz Indian policy in Sonora on the human beings who were its object. [It] tells the story of the social limbo created by the shattering of families and corruption of personal relations under the relentless pressures of the Yaqui deportation program."-Edward H. Spicer, Arizona and the West "The nightmare world of witchcraft and dream-dependence is one of the major fascinations of this strange and moving book...[Its understatement] acquires a kind of fascinating power, as does the laconic stoicism of the Yaqui himself." -Southern California Quarterly Jane Holden Kelley, a professor of archaeology at the University of Calgary, is the author of Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories (1978), also a Bison Book. Her father, William Curry Holden, a trained historian and anthropologist, met the Yaqui narrator of this chronicle, Rosalio Moises, in 1934. They remained close friends until Moises's death in 1969.
