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The Manito Topos Project: Place Naming And Toponymic Silencing In The Sierras Of Northern Nuevo México And Southern Colorado, Len N. Beké
Spanish and Portuguese ETDs
This dissertation reports on documentary research on vernacular toponymies in Manito communities in Nuevo México and Colorado. These toponymies are erased, obscured and delegitimized in official maps. Within the study area, vernacular antecedents for 49.5% of official names for natural features were documented, along with 280 previously unmapped names. These data were compared to the state-sanctioned toponymy to determine a typology of linguistic mechanisms of toponymic silencing. While a majority of official toponyms are based on Manito oral tradition, only 15.4% of the labels for natural features represent unaltered versions of names in that tradition. This dissertation theorizes the conceptual …
Reflection Of Hopi Culture In Hopi Folk Tales, Constance B. Sears
Reflection Of Hopi Culture In Hopi Folk Tales, Constance B. Sears
Anthropology ETDs
The present study has been undertaken in order to investigate those aspects of culture which are reflected in the folk tales--and those which are not--and the extent of that reflection. Furthermore, because the large body of Hopi literature provides a practical advantage for folk tale analysis, the specific problem selected was that of assessing the reflection of Hopi culture in their folk tales. It was decided to focus the study on the social life of the Hopi, rather than to deal with the entire culture, because of the necessity of narrowing the problem to a scope of a thesis, and …
A Study Of Zuni Myths As Literature, Elizabeth Jean Lange
A Study Of Zuni Myths As Literature, Elizabeth Jean Lange
Anthropology ETDs
It is the plan of this thesis to discuss the relation of mythology to anthropology in Chapter I. Chapter II is to be a brief survey of Zuni life and culture, while Chapter III is to be an analysis of Zuni mythology. An examination of the Zuni myths as literature will constitute Chapter IV, while Chapter V will be the summary and Chapter VI the conclusions.