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Trade Paperback. Condizione: BRAND NEW. ix, 273pp. New Copy. Our stock was aquired from the series editor, Karl Luckert, who purchased the publisher's backstock. 'Maasaw: Profile of a Hopi God describes the most important Hopi Indian deity as he emerges in a wide range of folk beliefs. God of death and ruler of the underworld, genitor of all animal and plant life, lord of fire and agriculture, mischievous trickster, and powerful war god, Maasaw has gained attributes and associations enough to place him among the most complex of deities. His many faces show both the flexibility of the Hopi religion and its response to modern circumstance. The fourteen chapters in Maasaw: Profile of a Hopi God round out the god's story image, first presented in Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God. All of the Hopi texts, recorded in the vernacular, are published here for the first time and translated into English. In this volume, as in the other, the object of the bilingual presentation is to preserve the Hopi language and literature for posterity. Maasaw: Profile of a Hopi God, like its companion volume, will attract general readers interested in the Hopi culture and oral tradition, as well as anthropologists, linguists, and folklorists.'.…