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The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection
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The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection Paperback - 2001

by Nancy Yaw Davis

Did a group of 13th century Japanese journey to the American Southwest, there to merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe? That is the question proposed by an anthropologist in "The Zuni Enigma". 16 illustrations.


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Did a group of thirteenth-century Japanese merge with the people, language, and religion of the Zuni tribe? For many years, anthropologists have understood the Zuni in the American Southwest to occupy a special place in Native American culture and ethnography. Their language, religion, and blood type are startlingly different from all other tribes. Most puzzling, the Zuni appear to have much in common with the people of Japan. In a book with groundbreaking implications, Dr. Nancy Yaw Davis examines the evidence underscoring the Zuni enigma and suggests the circumstances that may have led Japanese on a religious quest--searching for the legendary "middle world" of Buddhism--across the Pacific to the American Southwest more than seven hundred years ago.

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Centered in a broad, arid but colorful valley between mesas in northern New Mexico lies what the A:shiwi people call Itiwanna, "the Middle of the World," place of the Pueblo of Zuni.

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  • Title The Zuni Enigma: A Native American People's Possible Japanese Connection
  • Author Nancy Yaw Davis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Pages 350
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, NY
  • Date 2001-11-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393322309 / 0393322300
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.54 x 0.88 in (20.93 x 14.07 x 2.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Religious Orientation: Buddhist
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99038955
  • Dewey Decimal Code 970.019
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