Living Life's Circle: Mescalero Apache Cosmovision - Softcover

Farrer, Claire R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826315607 ISBN 13: 9780826315601

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 1994

Synopsis

The product of more than fifteen years contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, Living Life's 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

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From the Inside Flap:

The product of more than fifteen years contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, Living Life's 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.

From the Back Cover:

This 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0826315607
• ISBN 13: 9780826315601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288