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Living Life's Circle

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The product of more than fifteen years contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, Living Life's Circle is one of the first works devoted to the emergent new interdiscipline of ethnoastronomy, the study of how the sky and its movements form templates for life in particular cultures.
Claire R. Farrer was visiting professor of Southwest studies at Colorado College and was named the NEH/Harry Jack Gray Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2002-2003, at the University of Hartford, Connecticut.
"An excellent account of Apache philosophy as seen through their ceremonies." "An excellent discussion of the relationship between ethnoastronomy and the base metaphor in the Apache world view.a An excellent account of Apache philosophy as seen through their ceremonies. An excellent discussion of the relationship between ethnoastronomy and the base metaphor in the Apache world view.
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