O'odham Creation and Related Events

This book brings together dozens of stories that Ruth Benedict collected in 1927, during her only visit to the Pimas. Alongside the stories are the songs and orations that accompanied a telling, so the material keeps its performance context rather than reading as prose alone.

The volume also includes a text by Benedict herself, 'Figures of Speech among the Pima'. Donald M. Bahr and William Blackwater are credited alongside her, and the collection will interest readers of Native American oral traditions and anthropology.

Edition note: published by University of Arizona Press in 2001, 227 pages, as part of the Southwest Center Series. ISBN-13 9780816520800.