8 research outputs found
Where There Is No Name for Art: The Art of Tewa Pueblo Children. Subtitled Art and Voices of the Children of Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Pojoaque and Nambe Pueblos. By Bruce Hucko.
Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School [Vision, Culture and Landscape]
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Where There Is No Name for Art: The Art of Tewa Pueblo Children. Subtitled Art and Voices of the Children of Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Pojoaque and Nambe Pueblos. By Bruce Hucko.
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Enemy Ancestors: The Anasazi World with a Guide to Sites. By Gary Matlock.
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Healing Spaces in the Tewa Pueblo World
INTRODUCTION
In the Tewa Pueblo world, health is thought of as a state of balance or a state of harmony between the human and natural environments. John Collier, in the 1930s, described the search for harmony between the human and natural environments by the Pueblo people as not altogether unique but so very special that he knew of nowhere else where a more perfect flowering of the man-society and man-society-nature relationship had happened. The Pueblo people recognize that they live in a world of polarities-life and death, man and woman, weak and strong, black and white, and winter and summer-which create unity. They believe that past and future come together in the present-or in the center. The center is where harmony, balance, and grounding happen. It is where opposites come together to create cyclic movement and flowingness-or healing