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"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."

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Author:   David Delgado Shorter
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780803253445

ISBN 10:   0803253443
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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I strongly recommend this book. It will break new ground and revive old ways of viewing narrative, religion, performance, and ethnography. It is a wonderful contribution to the literature of Native American and Indigenous studies and should prove incredibly useful in graduate (and some undergraduate) courses everywhere. I for one cannot wait to introduce my students to <em>We Will Dance Our Truth</em>. - Jeffrey P. Shepherd, <em>Studies in American Indian Literatures</em><br><br> While the work is centrally about the Yoeme of Potam ... it is also about how we might conduct anthropological work with indigenous peoples who are concerned more than ever that whatever we write be of use to them. - Kathleen Fine-Dare, <em>Journal of Anthropological Research</em>

We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances is an engagingly written and important book. . . . I enthusiastically recommend this book for those concerned with colonialism and conversion, ritual performances, indigenous epistemologies, religious studies, and Native American verbal art and performance. --Anthony K./i>--Anthony K. Webster Journal of American Folklore

I strongly recommend this book. It will break new ground and revive old ways of viewing narrative, religion, performance, and ethnography. It is a wonderful contribution to the literature of Native American and Indigenous studies and should prove incredibly useful in graduate (and some undergraduate) courses everywhere. I for one cannot wait to introduce my students to We Will Dance Our Truth . - Jeffrey P. Shepherd, Studies in American Indian Literatures While the work is centrally about the Yoeme of Potam ... it is also about how we might conduct anthropological work with indigenous peoples who are concerned more than ever that whatever we write be of use to them. - Kathleen Fine-Dare, Journal of Anthropological Research

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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.

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