Juan Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 5646173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Short Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles
The Whore
This chapter explores a story of a footloose woman. Beyond its general continuity with the marital theme of the previous part, there is a particular shared item to point out. The name given for the woman's second father-in-law is Cadigum. Juan Smith and William Allison thought this was the name of a bird, but they did not know which. Thin Leather gave what is undoubtedly the same name either for a village companion (co-resident, not the same fami…
Feather Braided Chief and the Gambler
This chapter discusses the origin of war ceremonies. It is interesting that this origin occurs among the Hohokam. They are killed in Siuuhu's war, but in some sense also invented the practice. The chapter establishes that there has been neither warfare nor war ceremony in the mythology so far, that is, in the first nine stories. It defines that war is the intentional, face-to-face, bloodletting killing of a male by a male. Thus, war is men killin…
Conclusion: Mythologies
This chapter defines mythologies as a collection of texts, organized by one person, stating the origins of the things of this earth. Its defense is simple. In the first place, the Pima–Papago mythology intends to be historical, and the problem is to understand how it is so; that is, how it is preoccupied with Pima history and yet makes almost no reference to Pima and white relations. Second, except for a feeling conveyed by the narrative that wha…
Morning Green Chief and the Witch
This chapter shows that there are two, or really a negation of women giving birth and an irregular affirmation. The negation is in the flood myth. A woman thwarts her one-night-stand husband and causes him to give birth. The irregularity is the wife of Corn who gives birth normally but after an irregular impregnation, by eating a worm. The whore has no children; parenting is not the point of that story; footlooseness is. The mythology, then, is t…
Prelude, the Font Text
New Creation and Corn
Genesis
The Flood
The flood in this chapter is caused by an abnormality in sexual relations. Worlds or creations were ended because of eating one's own kind, that is, cannibalism, and because of two seemingly more minor abnormalities in aging: the progressively earlier onset of greyness and tobacco smoking. Here the abnormality is the ever-shorter length of pregnancies, that is, of the time period between making love and giving birth. The flood is caused by nothin…
After the Conquest
This chapter discusses just one text given to supplement Juan Smith and William Allison, which is from the long but poorly recorded Mattias Hendricks version of the conquest. It describes the death of an old woman among the conquerors, and is clearly the same story as Smith–Allison's. Thin Leather lacks a version of it. The chapter includes it to show that more narrators than Smith–Allison follow the conquest, which is almost bloodless for the vi…
Origin of Wine and Irrigation
This chapter explores two myths, the first of which is really an adjunct to the stories on farming and family life. It gives the origin of the cactus wine ceremony, a topic that was treated at the end of the Thin Leather Corn and Tobacco text. The cactus wine ritual is for the purpose of bringing rain, which is best seen in the chanted or orated speeches that are given during the event. Wine feast speeches sometimes also mention drinking, and the…
The Conquest Until Buzzard
This chapter explores three more parts in the mythology, two on the conquest and a final one in which the victorious Pima–Papago experience their first individualized death and then meet an insuperable enemy to the west of Hohokam country. With Mattias Hendricks and Juan Dolores to remind us of the diversity in conquest narratives, the chapter reviews the key points held in common by the two longest and richest versions, Juan Smith and William Al…
The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles
In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the “Hohokam Chronicles,” is the most complete native…
The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles
In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the “Hohokam Chronicles,” is the most complete native…
The Whore
This chapter explores a story of a footloose woman. Beyond its general continuity with the marital theme of the previous part, there is a particular shared item to point out. The name given for the woman's second father-in-law is Cadigum. Juan Smith and William Allison thought this was the name of a bird, but they did not know which. Thin Leather gave what is undoubtedly the same name either for a village companion (co-resident, not the same fami…
Feather Braided Chief and the Gambler
This chapter discusses the origin of war ceremonies. It is interesting that this origin occurs among the Hohokam. They are killed in Siuuhu's war, but in some sense also invented the practice. The chapter establishes that there has been neither warfare nor war ceremony in the mythology so far, that is, in the first nine stories. It defines that war is the intentional, face-to-face, bloodletting killing of a male by a male. Thus, war is men killin…
Conclusion: Mythologies
This chapter defines mythologies as a collection of texts, organized by one person, stating the origins of the things of this earth. Its defense is simple. In the first place, the Pima–Papago mythology intends to be historical, and the problem is to understand how it is so; that is, how it is preoccupied with Pima history and yet makes almost no reference to Pima and white relations. Second, except for a feeling conveyed by the narrative that wha…
Morning Green Chief and the Witch
This chapter shows that there are two, or really a negation of women giving birth and an irregular affirmation. The negation is in the flood myth. A woman thwarts her one-night-stand husband and causes him to give birth. The irregularity is the wife of Corn who gives birth normally but after an irregular impregnation, by eating a worm. The whore has no children; parenting is not the point of that story; footlooseness is. The mythology, then, is t…
Prelude, the Font Text
New Creation and Corn
Genesis
The Flood
The flood in this chapter is caused by an abnormality in sexual relations. Worlds or creations were ended because of eating one's own kind, that is, cannibalism, and because of two seemingly more minor abnormalities in aging: the progressively earlier onset of greyness and tobacco smoking. Here the abnormality is the ever-shorter length of pregnancies, that is, of the time period between making love and giving birth. The flood is caused by nothin…
After the Conquest
This chapter discusses just one text given to supplement Juan Smith and William Allison, which is from the long but poorly recorded Mattias Hendricks version of the conquest. It describes the death of an old woman among the conquerors, and is clearly the same story as Smith–Allison's. Thin Leather lacks a version of it. The chapter includes it to show that more narrators than Smith–Allison follow the conquest, which is almost bloodless for the vi…
Origin of Wine and Irrigation
This chapter explores two myths, the first of which is really an adjunct to the stories on farming and family life. It gives the origin of the cactus wine ceremony, a topic that was treated at the end of the Thin Leather Corn and Tobacco text. The cactus wine ritual is for the purpose of bringing rain, which is best seen in the chanted or orated speeches that are given during the event. Wine feast speeches sometimes also mention drinking, and the…
The Conquest Until Buzzard
This chapter explores three more parts in the mythology, two on the conquest and a final one in which the victorious Pima–Papago experience their first individualized death and then meet an insuperable enemy to the west of Hohokam country. With Mattias Hendricks and Juan Dolores to remind us of the diversity in conquest narratives, the chapter reviews the key points held in common by the two longest and richest versions, Juan Smith and William Al…
The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles
In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the “Hohokam Chronicles,” is the most complete native…
The Short Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles
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