We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances

by David Delgado Shorter

In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive field study, ShorterOCOs interpretation of the communityOCOs ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of OC historical inscriptionOCO reveals new meanings of their legends of the Talking Tree, their narrative of myth-and-history known as the Testamento, their fabled deer dances, funerary rites, and church processions.

Genres: History

390 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2009

Reviews

[David Shorter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is really the best book I've read in a very very long time. :^)

[kieran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous first book by Dr. David Shorter! Waiting for his next one!