Red, black, blond, and olive ; studies in four civilizations: Zuñi, Haiti, Soviet Russia, Israel.

Red, black, blond, and olive ; studies in four civilizations: Zuñi, Haiti, Soviet Russia, Israel.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1956.
Subjects:
Zuni Indians.
Ethnic Groups.
Haiti > Social life and customs.
Soviet Union > Social life and customs.
Israel > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • [1.] Zuñi (1947): The pueblo
  • The anthropologists
  • Shálako
  • Navaho interlude
  • Shálako continued
  • Departure
  • [2.] Haiti (1949): Cotton Blossom Express
  • Miami
  • Two West Indian authors
  • King Christophe's citadel
  • Color politics
  • Marbial
  • Haitian literature
  • Voodoo converts
  • Pastor McConnell
  • Port-au-Prince
  • [3.] Soviet Russia (1935): Old England
  • London to Leningrad
  • Leningrad theaters
  • On the margin of Moscow
  • Volga idyll
  • Odessa: counter-idyll
  • Final reflections
  • [4.] Israel (1954): On first reading Genesis
  • Éretz Yisraél: Samaritan Passover ; The guardians of the city ; The fiction of S.Y. Agnón ; Theocracy ; Tanách ; Jerusalem the golden ; Degániya ; Éretz Yisraél.