Walking to Magdalena - Seth Schermerhorn

Walking to Magdalena

Personhood and Place in Tohono O'odham Songs, Sticks, and Stories
Buch | Softcover
258 Seiten
2024
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3876-4 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
Walking to Magdalena examines how the Tohono O’odham of southern Arizona have made Christianity their own by focusing on the annual pilgrimage O’odham make to Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico.
In Walking to Magdalena, Seth Schermerhorn explores a question that is central to the interface of religious studies and Native American and Indigenous studies: What have Native peoples made of Christianity? By focusing on the annual pilgrimage of the Tohono O’odham to Magdalena in Sonora, Mexico, Schermerhorn examines how these Indigenous people of southern Arizona have made Christianity their own. This walk serves as the entry point for larger questions about what the Tohono O’odham have made of Christianity.

With scholarly rigor and passionate empathy, Schermerhorn offers a deep understanding of Tohono O’odham Christian traditions as practiced in everyday life and in the words of the O’odham themselves. The author’s rich ethnographic description and analyses are also drawn from his experiences accompanying a group of O’odham walkers on their pilgrimage to Saint Francis in Magdalena. For many years scholars have agreed that the journey to Magdalena is the largest and most significant event in the annual cycle of Tohono O’odham Christianity. Never before, however, has it been the subject of sustained scholarly inquiry.

Walking to Magdalena offers insight into religious life and expressive culture, relying on extensive field study, videotaped and transcribed oral histories of the O’odham, and archival research. The book illuminates Indigenous theories of personhood and place in the everyday life, narratives, songs, and material culture of the Tohono O’odham.

Seth Schermerhorn is an associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College.  

List of Illustrations
Tohono O’odham Pronunciation Guide
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Personhood and Place
2. O’odham Songscapes
3. Walkers and Their Staffs
4. Walking to Magdalena
5. Writing O’odham History
Conclusion
Appendix 1: O’odham Religious History and the Magdalena Pilgrimage
Appendix 2: O’odham Speech Genres
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Zusatzinfo 4 photographs, 1 map, 2 appendixes, index
Verlagsort Lincoln
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4962-3876-1 / 1496238761
ISBN-13 978-1-4962-3876-4 / 9781496238764
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