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Explorers in Eden : Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land - Jerold S. Auerbach

Explorers in Eden

Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land

By: Jerold S. Auerbach

Paperback | 30 July 2008

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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the pueblos of the Southwest frequently inspired Anglo-American visitors to express their sense of wonder and enchantment in biblical references. Frank Hamilton Cushing's first account of Zuni pueblo described a setting that looked like "The Pools of Palestine." Drawn to the Southwest, Mabel Dodge imagined "a garden of Eden, inhabited by an unfallen tribe of men and women." There she was attracted to Tony Luhan, a Taos Indian who looked "like a Biblical figure."

When historian Jerold Auerbach first saw Edward S. Curtis's early twentieth-century photograph "Taos Water Girls," he realized that "here, indeed, was the biblical Rebecca, relocated to New Mexico from ancient Haran, where Abraham's faithful servant had journeyed to find a suitable wife for Isaac. Rebecca with her water pitcher is as familiar a biblical icon as Noah and his ark or Moses with the stone tablets. Curtis had recast her as the archetypal Pueblo maiden."

"Explorers in Eden" uncovers an intriguing array of diaries, letters, memoirs, photographs, paintings, postcards, advertisements, anthropological field studies, and scholarly monographs. They reveal how Anglo-Americans disenchanted with modern urban industrial society developed a deep and rich fascination with pueblo culture through their biblical associations.

Industry Reviews
"[Auerbach] uses gender scholarship to organize and give coherence to this otherwise disparate group. In part 1, 'A Man's World,' he argues that individuals such as [Frank] Cushing, [Charles] Lummis,... and [Fred] Harvey approached the Southwest and the Pueblos from a masculine perspective, desperate to reclaim rugged individualism from the emotional emasculation of Victorian domesticity. Part 2, 'A Woman's Place,' considers the transformation of the Southwest into a feminist utopia by [Mabel] Luhan, [Ruth] Benedict, and others who reimagined the Southwest as a place of liberation for women.... Auerbach makes a strong case for rethinking our approach to Anglo encounters in the Southwest." - The Journal of American History"

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