We will dance our truth: Yaqui history in Yoeme performances 9780803226463, 9780803217331, 9780803253445

In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizo

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Table of contents :
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations (page ix)
Acknowledgments (page xi)
Introduction: Talking about Where Yoeme History Begins (page 1)
1: Geography of Yoeme Identities (page 28)
Ethnographic Dialogue 1 (page 57)
2: Putting Worlds into Words (page 67)
Ethnographic Dialogue 2 (page 99)
3: Listening to the Tree and Hearing History (page 111)
Ethnographic Dialogue 3 (page 147)
4: Our History of Nuestros Triunfos (page 156)
Ethnographic Dialogue 4 (page 181)
Reconsidering "Writing" and the Proof of History (page 197)
5: Hunting for History in Potam Pueblo (page 210)
Ethnographic Dialogue 5 (page 246)
6 Yoeme Place-Making: Acts of Loving and Giving (page 252)
Ethnographic Dialogue 6 (page 289)
Conclusion: Potam Pueblo Enacted (page 307)
Notes (page 319)
References (page 333)
Index (page 357)
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WE WILL DANCE OUR TRUTH

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Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances

DAVID DELGADO SHORTER

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS LINCOLN AND LONDON

© 2009 by the Board of Regents p. cm. of the University of Nebraska. All Includes bibliographical

rights reserved. Manufactured in references and index. the United States of America. ISBN 978-0-8032-1733-1 (cloth : alk. paper) Portions of chapter 5, “Hunting

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ISBN 978-0-8032-5344-5

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118, no. 3 (December2.2007): oe . Yaqui Indians — Rites and ceremonies. 3. Yaqui Indians -

All photographs by the author. Social life and customs. 4. Folklore — Performance — Mexico. 5. Oral tradition -

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