The University of Arizona Press
Pascua
A Yaqui Village in Arizona
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The Yaqui of Mexico were early converts to Christianity in New Spain. Yet they came to be regarded with hostility by the newly emerging Mexican government. Many Yaquis fled Mexico in the early twentieth century and established a settlement in Arizona where they resumed a peaceful existence centered around their ceremonial calendar.
Edward Spicer devoted most of his professional career to the study of the Yaquis and came to be regarded as a leading authority on that tribe. At the inception of his forty years of research stands Pascua, a firsthand description of daily village life.
Edward Spicer devoted most of his professional career to the study of the Yaquis and came to be regarded as a leading authority on that tribe. At the inception of his forty years of research stands Pascua, a firsthand description of daily village life.
"Spicer lived at Old Pascua before he wrote this book, which was originally published in 1940 by the University of Chicago Press. It represents in a very comprehensive way his belief that to know a culture you must go to its common people. Classic study of a very special culture in Arizona."—Books of the Southwest
325 Pages
5.5 x 8.5
Published: May 2019Ebooks (OA) ISBN: 9780816540327