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Pascua, a Yaqui village in Arizona /

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A portrait of the Yaqui Indian village of Pascua, located on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, outlines the village's history, economics, customs of kinship, and complex religious ceremonial organization and practices.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spicer, Edward Holland, 1906-1983
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, [1984], ©1967.
Subjects:
Yaqui Indians.
Pascua Village (Ariz.) > Social life and customs.
Yaqui Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America > Arizona > Rites and ceremonies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Indians of North America > Rites and ceremonies.
Manners and customs.
Arizona.
Arizona > Pascua Village.
Yaqui (Indiens) > Rites et cérémonies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Pascua Village
  • Economics
  • Kinship
  • Ceremonial sponsorship
  • The ceremonial societies
  • The church and the pueblo
  • The Pascola dancers
  • The ceremonial system : events and patterns
  • The ceremonial system : ancestors and deities
  • Organization and conflict
  • Conclusion : the hypothesis of functional inconsistency.