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New York : W.W. Norton, c2000.
Description
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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LibraryThing member akswede
It's an interesting idea, but unfortunately Davis' theory breaks down when it comes to language (and may in other areas I'm not qualified to comment on). Japanese and Zuni becoming mutually unintelligible -- and with no demonstrable sound correspondences -- in only a few centuries? That's highly
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unlikely. I can't help but think Davis is confusing typologically common features (like a 5-vowel system) or word order with historically inherited features. Show Less
LibraryThing member Lindoula
It's an interesting idea, but unfortunately Davis' theory breaks down when it comes to language (and may in other areas I'm not qualified to comment on). Japanese and Zuni becoming mutually unintelligible -- and with no demonstrable sound correspondences -- in only a few centuries? That's highly
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unlikely. I can't help but think Davis is confusing typologically common features (like a 5-vowel system) or word order with historically inherited features. Show Less
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Physical description
xxx, 318 p.; 25 cm
ISBN
0393047881 / 9780393047882
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