The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection

The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection

by Nancy Yaw Davis (Author)

Synopsis

Did a group of thirteenth-century Japanese merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe? For many years, anthropologists have understood the Zuni in the American Southwest to occupy a special place in Native American culture and ethnography. Their language, religion, and blood type are startlingly different from all other tribes. Most puzzling, the Zuni appear to have much in common with the people of Japan. In a book with groundbreaking implications, Dr. Nancy Yaw Davis examines the evidence underscoring the Zuni enigma and suggests the circumstances that may have led Japanese on a religious quest-searching for the legendary middle world of Buddhism-across the Pacific to the American Southwest more than seven hundred years ago.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 354
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08 Jan 2002

ISBN 10: 0393322300
ISBN 13: 9780393322309

Author Bio
Nancy Yaw Davis holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Washington. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska.