Living Life's Circle: Mescalero Apache Cosmovision

By Claire R. Farrer

Book Overview

The product of more than fifteen years contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, "Living Lifes Circle" is one of the first works devoted to the emergent new interdiscipline of ethnoastronomy, the study of how the sky and its movements form templates for life in particular cultures. Urged by her friend and mentor, the remarkable singer and medicine man Bernard Second, to Pay attention, Farrer began to recognize a powerful primary metaphor based on acute astronomical observation and its direct relevance to all aspects of Mescalero life. Should be read by every student of culture.M. Jane Young

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826313116
• ISBN13: 9780826313119
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A great book for a lover of Religion

This book focuses only on the affects of religon in an Apache society. The author, Claire Farrer, uses first person encounters to discribe rituals and the society surrounding them, not facts written fifty years ago. It is very lively and not at all what I expected for an Antro. class. I would reccomend this book to anyone who loves Native American history.