Pieces of White Shell

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Paperback
1987
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This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate their own history, traditions, and sense of how to live well.

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This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate their own history, traditions, and sense of how to live well.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 15 May 1987
ISBN 10: 0826309690
ISBN 13: 9780826309693

Author Bio

Terry Tempest Williams