Can you give more detail about where the Zuni are? (And I think they've lived there forever (i.e. generations)).

— admin 2021/06/16 15:46

Foley published about this piece extensively, helping us to understand that it is meant to be comic / humorous, and that the kid's problem is cultural illiteracy – i.e. that you're supposed to know how things work and what they mean.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1499652

Also, note this story/ poem is now widely available in Tedlock's collection _Finding The Center_

check source links. correct information on farming and food. see: https://pages.ucsd.edu/~rfrank/class_web/ES-110/ETHN110articles/Southwest/tedlock_ps.pdf and https://thefern.org/2020/04/what-do-ancient-southwest-farming-cultures-tell-us-about-climate-change-drought/

“fetish” is a pejorative

add note on _Finding the Center_ (primary published source for this poem now).

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