Zuñi and the American Imagination (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Eliza McFeely
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Anthropology and history
- Time of Work: 1879-2001
- Setting: The United States, with an emphasis on the Zuñi Pueblo, New Mexico
- Principal Characters: James Stevenson, Matilda Stevenson, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Steward Culin, John Hiller, We’wha
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, New Mexico, Southwest, Anthropology or anthropologists, Collecting or collectors, Museums, Ethnology
- Locales: Zuni Indian Reservation, NM
Despite the title Zuñi and the American Imagination, Eliza McFeely’s book is not really an in-depth study of Zuñi history, culture, religion, or ethnography. Nor is it a comprehensive study of the American imagination, although it does make passing reference to the ways in which Aldous Huxley (in Brave New World, 1931) and Robert Heinlein (in Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961) used the idea of Zuñi in their famous science fiction novels, novels which inspired generations of Americans to question modern commercial culture and long somewhat unrealistically for an...
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