| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780826313119 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
299.72 Far |
| Item number |
41 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
299.72 Far |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Farrer, Claire R. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Living life's circle : |
| Remainder of title |
Mescalero Apache cosmovision |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Claire R. Farrer |
| 260 00 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Univ. of N.M. Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1991 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Albuequerque, NM |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 274 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The product of more than fifteen years' contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, Living Life's Circle is one of the first works devoted to the emergent new interdiscipline of ethnoastronomy, a field that considers non-Western perceptions of celestial phenomena and the ways in which the sky and its movements form "templates" fro life. During this fifteen-year period, author Claire Farrer had as friend and mentor the remakable Bernard Second, signer and medicine man, who not only dreamed her arrival but accurately predicted his death eleven years beforehand. Urged by Second's ceaseless admonition, "Pay attention," Farrer slowly recognized the presence of a powerful primary metaphor, rooted in acute astronomical observation, and its direct relevance to all aspects of Mescalero life. This book beautifully elucidates the Mescalero view of a living interconnection to the larger "circle." Farrer explains the Apache concept of a nexus between the known and the chaotic, or Real and Shadow Worlds, and its personification in Mescalero clown tradition, In the course of her exposition, she seamlessly interjects significant personal experiences in such matters as death, food, gender, and the shape of present-day Apache life. A brief appendix also encapsulates a history of the Mescalero, many of whom are direct descendants of the Apache prophet and warrior Geronimo -- Book jacket |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
63264 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Southwest |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Mescalero Indians Religion |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Mescalero astronomy |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cosmogonie apache |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
sw 200 - 299 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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