Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction - Jessica Joyce Christie
I. NORTH AMERICA
1. The Center of the World: The Principle People and the Great Smoky Mountains - Christopher Arris Oakley
2. Xeroxed on Stone: Times of Origin and the Navajo Holy People in Canyon Landscapes - Polly Schaafsma and Will Tsosie&
3. Nu–vagantu–, “Where Snow Sits”: Origin Mountains of the Southern Paiutes - Richard Stoffl e, Richard Arnold, Kathleen Van Vlack, Larry Eddy, Betty Cornelius
4. Origin Narratives, Places, and Concepts among the ‘Namgis, a Kwakwaka’wakw Group in British Columbia, Canada - Jessica Joyce Christie
II. MESOAMERICA (CULTURAL REGION WITHIN CENTRAL AMERICA)
5. Malinalco: A Place between Heaven and Earth - Manuel Aguilar-Moreno&
6. The Map of the Province of Maní: A Record of Landscape and Northern Maya Lowland Concepts of Origin - Merideth Paxton
7. Ancestral Presence at the Navel of the World: Francisco Sojuel and Santiago Atitlán - Allen J. Christenson
III. SOUTH AMERICA—REGION OF THE ANDES
8. Landscapes as Metaphor: Resources, Language, and Myths of Dynastic Origin on the Pacific Coast from the Santa Valley (Peru) to Manabí (Ecuador) - Patricia J. Netherly
9. Inka Pacariqtambo: It Depends Which Eyes Are Looking at It - Jessica Joyce Christie&
References Cited
Contributors
Index