Masked Gods: Navaho Pueblo Ceremonialism

Masked Gods is a vast book, a challenging and profoundly original account of the history, legends, and ceremonialism of the Navaho and Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Following a brief but vivid history of the two tribes through the centuries of conquest, the book turns inward to the meaning of Indian legends and ritual — Navaho songs, Pueblo dances, Zuni kachina ceremonies. Enduring still, these rituals and ceremonies express a view of life, of man's place in the creation, which is compared with Taoism and Buddhism — and with the aggressive individualism of the Western world.

• Author
• Frank Waters

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 432

• Publisher
• Swallow Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780804006415

• Genres
• history, anthropology

• Release date
• 1950