Washington Matthews

Night Chant

A Navaho Ceremony

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

246 kr

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The Night Chant is one of the great nine-day, Navajo winter healing ceremonies. During its course, nearly all the important characters of the Navajo pantheon are mentioned in legends, depicted in sand paintings, and impersonated with the use of masks and other ritual objects. Originally published in 1902, Washington Matthews's The Night Chant contains one of the few extensive descriptions of this important ceremony. Washington Matthews studied Navajo language and lifeways as an ethnologist and linguistics expert in the late-nineteenth century. His unique opportunities to observe ceremonies and record the roles of participants resulted in landmark studies of Navajo ritual and tradition. Matthews spent more than twenty years working with hatathli, or singers, to record the many songs and rites that comprise the intricate Night Chant. provides a detailed description of healing rites, songs, myths, and prayers for the ceremony, which is performed only during 'frosty weather.' This edition includes powerful contemporary observations in a foreword by John Farella.

Mountain Chant

A Navajo Ceremony

AvWashington Matthews,Jeffrey Dean

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

158 kr

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The Mountain Chant is a nine-day Navajo healing ceremony, one of several major rites undertaken only in winter. Aside from curing disease, it brings rain and invokes the unseen powers for general benefit. Though perhaps practiced less often now than better-known ceremonies such as the Night Chant, it is by no means forgotten.Fully faithful to the original book published by Washington Matthews over a century ago, this edition contains the story of the wandering hero upon whose exploits the Mountain Chant is based, a description of each of the nine ceremonial days, and original song text and translations."Each Navajo ceremony builds on a specific story, which in turn contributes to a network of interlocking narratives as poetically rich as the Homeric epics or the Arthurian cycle. Non-Navajos are only now beginning to fathom the extent of that poetic richness as we learn more about the nature of ceremonial Navajo, with its formulaic virtuosity, its rhythmic cadences, its deep allusiveness to enduring human values, and the spellbinding thrust of its stories."- Paul Zolbrod, from the foreword

Washington Matthews - Böcker

Night Chant

Mountain Chant

Navaho Legends

Navaho Legends

Grammar And Dictionary Of The Language Of The Hidatsa

Grammar And Dictionary Of The Language Of The Hidatsa

Mountain Chant

Mountain Chant

Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians

Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians

Navaho Myths Prayers and Songs

Navaho Myths Prayers and Songs

Navajo Weavers

Gentile System of the Navajo Indians, Etc. from the Journal of American Folk-Lore

Memoirs of The American Folk-Lore Society; Volume V

Navaho Legends - With Introductions, Notes, Illustrations, Texts, Interlinear Translations, And Melodies

The Night Chant: A Navaho Ceremony

The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony

Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians

The Night Chant: A Navaho Ceremony

Navaho Myths, Prayers, and Songs

Navaho Myths, Prayers, and Songs

Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians

Navaho Legends

Human Bones of the Hemenway Collection

Navajo Silversmiths; Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 167-178

Navajo weavers; Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392.