Old Oraibi: A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa

Description

Author: Titiev, Mischa (1901-1978)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1992 (Reprint edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears.  Previous owner’s name and mark on upper corner title page, near spine head.  All corners and edges have some degree of wear.  All corners have slight bends.  A few small spots to lower front cover corner.  The first ten pages or so of the front matter (Foreword, Table of Contents) have an approx. 1″ bend on upper corner.  Pages 67-73 have small (approx. 1/16″) bend.  Smudging to bottom text block.  Embossed front cover.

Notes: Reprint edition.  Originally published by the Peabody Museum in 1944 (Papers of the Peabody Museum, Volume 22, No. 1).  “Old Oraibi is unlike any ethnographic monograph written about the Pueblos before 1944.  Instead of the usual static chapter headings of culture traits that characterized most ethnographic publications about American Indians, Titiev wrote a dynamic study to capture the web of social relations and ceremonial obligations that a Hopi had to negotiate in daily life.  For him descriptions of cultural categories were meaningless because each Hopi was defined by many social expectations, every social encounter required a different response.  Old Oraibi is in part a study of Hopi social relationships in the everyday world, and in part a cultural history of Oraibi as seen through the experience of its oldest residents.”  (From the Foreword)