Blood and Voice: Navajo Women Ceremonial Practitioners

by Maureen Trudelle Schwarz

Book Overview

Adulthood in the Navajo world is marked by the onset of menstruation in females and by the deepening of the voice in males. Accordingly, young adults must accept responsibility over the powers manifest in blood and voice: for women, the forces that control reproduction and growth; for men, the powers of protection and restoration of order that come through maintaining Navajo oral tradition.

The maintenance of the latter tradition has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816523010
• ISBN13: 9780816523016
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"