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Songs of the Tewa: American Indian Home Songs, Sacred Chants, Ceremonial Songs, Magic Songs & Prayers

by Herbert Joseph Spinden

Tewa songs in translation, with historical context

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Tewa songs in translation, with historical context

This collection brings together Tewa ritual and secular songs as translated by Herbert Joseph Spinden, alongside an early introductory essay and scholarly notes. Its scope includes home songs, sacred chants, ceremonial songs, magic songs, and prayers, placing varied forms of oral expression within a single volume. The revised edition also includes early photographs of Tewa people from the collection of Mrs. Spinden and a preface by Alice Marriott. The publisher describes the songs as dating from around 1933, situating the collection in a particular period of documentation of Tewa verbal traditions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Tewa and Pueblo cultural traditions.
  • Those studying Indigenous oral literature, song, or poetry.
  • Readers seeking translated ritual and secular songs with scholarly notes and historical photographs.

Themes

Tewa oral traditionRitual and sacred songIndigenous poetry and cultural memoryHistorical documentation

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Book overview

For centuries the American Indian literary tradition was primarily an oral one. Since written languages were rare among native North and South American cultures, all literature-myth, legend, story, poetry-was passed along the generations through memory and the spoken word. Herbert Joseph Spinden collected these at a time-around 1933-when the Indian poetic voice was a nameless one. The songs included here are of that period and his translations of Tewa ritual and secular songs are remarkable for their sensitivity to and consonance with Tewa (Pueblo) thought. This copyrighted edition includes an early introductory essay and scholarly notes by Dr. Spinden, early photographs of the Tewa from the collection of Mrs. Spinden, and a preface by Alice Marriott.
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