The Tewa World

Released on by Alfonso Ortiz
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  • The Tewa World Book Detail

  • Author : Alfonso Ortiz
  • Release Date : 1969
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 220
  • ISBN 13 : 9780226633077
  • File Size : 36,36 MB
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The Tewa World by Alfonso Ortiz PDF Summary

Book Description: This book is not a descriptive monograph, but an essay in cultural analysis, one which views culture as a system of symbols and which takes form under the impact of modern structural theory. A theme which runs throughout is the concept of dual organization, a structure which once characterized ten to fifteen percent of all known human societies, and which is found in a highly developed form among the Tewa today. Defined as "a system of antithetical institutions with the associated symbols, ideas, and meanings in terms of which social interaction takes place," a dual organization is for the Tewa a natural result of adapting to an environment comprised of opposites--two extremes of weather during the year; two means of subsistence, hunting in winter and farming in summer; and two periods and directions of migration in the origin myth.

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