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"A look at Pueblo dance through striking black and white photographs of dancers in traditional dress from the Pueblo villages of San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, San Juan, Jemez, and Tesuque. Well-known Southwest photographer, Nancy Hunter Warren, took thesevaluable photographs with permission, thirty to forty years ago. Among the dances portrayed are Buffalo, Comanche, Corn, Deer, and Matachine. The text is a clear and concise explanation of Pueblo dancing, including their experiential, symbolic, and cyclical natures."--Jacket.
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Several years ago, Nancy Hunter Warren--former staff photographer for the Museum of New Mexico's Laboratory of Anthropology--came across three boxes of black-and-white prints that she had forgotten about. She knew immediately that her photographs of Indian dances, made during the 1970s and 1980s, should be in a book. Fortuitously, she was put in touch with dance scholar Jill Drayson Sweet (emerita, anthropology, Skidmore College), who had observed and studied the same dances during the same years--although the two had been unaware of each other's work. Sweet's descriptions and explanations and Warren's images offers an extraordinary close-up view, and shining through is the profound respect that both women carry for the subjects. The volume is oversize: 9.25x12.25". Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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