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THE ENEMY GODS
by La Farge, Oliver
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0826303951
- ISBN 13
- 9780826303950
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About This Item
Albuquerque, NM: Univ of New Mexico Press, 1975. First Paperback Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/VG; strong & sound w/edge & surface rubs, faint creasings, and, trace humidity stain to lower back edge. PO name to front cover verso. First published 1937; this is the first paperback printing of 1975. Story of a 16 year-old Navajo boy who, since the tender age of 6, has been enrolled in the Mission School. So, for ten years his mind was molded Christianity and taught to think like an Anglo-American, reducing his native gods and ceremonial rites into superstitious nonsence. At the brink of manhood he awakens to reassume his birthright. It is clear just following the old Navajo ways will not suffice in the new world, but neither does walking the trails of the white man. A work of strong social criticism, it is a more serious novel than the novel Laughing Boy (1929) which earned anthropologist and Indian Rights activist Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge (1901 - 1960) the Pulitzer Prize.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009769
- Title
- THE ENEMY GODS
- Author
- La Farge, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition, First Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0826303951
- ISBN 13
- 9780826303950
- Publisher
- Univ of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication
- Albuquerque, NM
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Fiction/Novel/Navajo 20th Century/Mission School
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