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Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father: Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting

Contributor(s): Griffin-Pierce, Trudy (Author), Momaday, N Scott (Foreword by)

ISBN: 9780826316349

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

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Pub Date: March 1, 1995

Dewey: 299.782

LCCN: 92015470

Lexile Code: 1320

Features: Illustrated

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.71" H x 8.99" L x 5.99" W ( 1.01 lbs) 240 pages

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Description: Explores the circularity of Navajo thought through studies of sandpaintings, chantway myths, and stories reflected in the constellations.

Brief description: Trudy Griffin-Pierce (1949-2009) was an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She was the author of several books on American Indian cosmology.

Review Quotes: "A valuable introduction to the Navajo regard for the unchanging order of the sky."

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