David Delgado Shorter

We Will Dance Our Truth

Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive field study, Shorter's interpretation of the community's ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of "historical inscription" reveals new meanings of their legends of the Talking Tree, their Testamento narrative of myth and history, and their fabled deer dances, funerary rites, and church processions. Working collaboratively with Yoeme communities, Shorter has produced a scrupulous investigation that challenges received wisdom from both anthropological and New Age perspectives, demonstrates how Yoeme performances provide a counterdiscourse to earlier understandings of colonialism and conquest, and updates our knowledge of contemporary Yoeme society. Shorter's vivid descriptions and penetrating analyses vividly show how today's Yoeme peoples navigate the tribulations and opportunities of the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780803253445
• ISBN-10: 0803253443
• Artikelnr.: 40139315

Autorenporträt

David Delgado Shorter is a professor and vice chair in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:  Talking About Where Yoeme History Begins 
Chapter 1. Geography of Yoeme Identities
Ethnographic Dialogue I   
Chapter 2. Putting Worlds into Words: The Testamento as Storying Space into
Place    
Ethnographic Dialogue II    
Chapter 3. Listening to the Tree, Hearing History    
Ethnographic Dialogue III    
Chapter 4. Our History of Nuestros Triunfos    
Ethnographic Dialogue IV    
Interchapter:   Reconsidering "Writing" and the Proof of History    
Chapter 5. Hunting for History    
Ethnographic Dialogue V    
Chapter 6. Yoeme Place Making: Cosmography, Topogeny, and Territory    
Ethnographic Dialogue VI    
Conclusion:  Potam Pueblo Enacted    
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography