Yaqui

For this paper, I will be looking at the musical expression of the Yurok and Yaqui tribes of Native North America. There are two major types of musical expression for the Yurok, world renewal dances, and medicine songs. Both of types of music are sacred and hold a prominent place in Yurok society. For the purpose of this paper, I am going to focus on the world renewal dances because they provide interesting similarities and differences to Yaqui Deer songs. Yaqui Deer songs can be sung by themselves, but they provide the most amount of information about the Yaqui culture and religion when they are performed within the context of the Deer Dance, which is a night-long dance that originally preceded a deer hunt. Before we can dive into Yurok and…

The Yaqui territory is located in the Southwest region in the State of Sonora between the towns of Cajeme, Guaymas and Bácum . The Yaqui tribe is composed of eight villages, which are: Vícam, Pótam, Bácum, Huirivis, rahum, Belém, Tórim and Cócorit. The basis of social organization is nuclear, monogamous, inbred family; within the interior of the family, the elderly play an important role. The highest authority is the father who is the breadwinner, has interference in the informal education of…

“Yaqui is a rabid boxer, her fists balled. I tower over her by a few inches, but not that my size helps. She’s done this before. I kick and try to get out of her, but nothing is stopping her from toppling me and pressing my face into the pavement. She kicks me hard in the ribs as her friends say, “ooh,” and cover their mouths.” Just another day another fight. It has really become a routine thing to my everyday life. I would bet that there was going to be a fight, buy popcorn, and linger near the…

it does. Many of your actions are based in aspects of your psychology, and if you don't understand the underlying causes, you will always twist in the wind. You need to study this so that you can also understand why other people do what they do. You may be mad at people because they act in ways you don't like. Learn why they act these ways. Once you do, you will learn to separate the person (outward actions) from the collection of psychological impulses. Read these books: "Walden" by Henry…

Her first-person narration includes the voices of a Navajo electrician, a great-grandmother who endured the Long Walk, an aunt, and the speaker, tying the memories to geographical place across generations. Similarly, in “The People and the Land are Inseparable,” Silko describes the Yaqui villages within the Tucson metropolitan area, exploring what homeland means for native people in urban areas, determining “The Yaquis may have had to leave behind their Sonoran mountain strongholds, but they did…

A dance originated from Sonora Mexico that is now popular in many other parts of Mexico named la danza de venado also known as the deer dance. A native Yaqui dance that is used to dramatize deer hunting in the honoring of the natural world we live in and especially those white tailed deer which were the providers for the hunters and their family’s essentials. The dance was designed to portray a deer’s graceful and active movements. The dancers wear deer heads and dress in an Indian manner as…

the journal American Anthropologist in June of 1956 (Wikipedia), Miner’s etic, social analysis reporting, portrays a small tribe living in the “territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the island Carabis and Arawak of the Antilles” (Miner). I will briefly discuss the more distinctive topics of the paper, beginning with an enchanted belief system and importance of shrines, and summarize Miner’s article, paying particular attention to the elaborate belief system…

salons. He says dentists use tools for “exorcism of the evils of the mouth” which “involves almost unbelievable ritual torture of the client”. We all know the dentist is not that bad therefore he is exaggerating what dentists do and also shows how he may not like going to the dentist. Another example of exaggeration in his article can be when he describes shaving as “scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument.” This technique is effective because it helps to keep us…

The article Body Ritual among the Nacirema by Horace Miner is about culture and rituals. Culture is defined as “a system of ideas, values, beliefs, knowledge, norms, customs, and technology shared by almost everyone in a particular society” (Basirico, Cashion, and Eshleman 99). In other words, it’s a way of life in society or a specific geographical area. According to the author, Nacirema is between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui, and Tarahumare of Mexico, which offer the readers some insight of…

The Nacirema practices consist of magic driven rituals and ceremonies that shape human behaviour. The rituals and ceremonies establish Horace Miner’s view of Nacirema as American spelt backwards. Initially, Horace Miner views the American culture through magical powers that establish the creation of the culture. Therefore, the Nacirmea culture originates from the Canadian Cree, Yaqui, Tarahumare of Mexico, the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles, which the origin comes from the natives who first…