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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 140 pages: illustrations, portraits. Wraps. VG. Gui de Angulo brings together in this book the complete Taos papers of the legendary linguist, Jaime de Angulo, which tell the story of his life in the 1920's Taos where he stayed with Mabel Dodge and her Indian husband Tony Luhan. Told with the anthropologist's keen eye for social detail, it is a true story about the interconnecting worlds of Indians, social scientists, writers, and bohemians. Angulo wanted to learn more about the religious philosophy and customs of the Taos and other pueblo Indians and to record their languages. He gives vivid impressions of pueblo life, comparing their culture with that of the Achumawi, the California Indians with whom he had lived. His journals and letters reveal much about that anguished time when Burke, controversial chief of the Bureau of Indian affairs, was trying to outlaw ceremonials, while anthropologists and others were rallying to their defense. Here too is the story of Angulo's part in bringing Carl Jung to America to meet the Indians, whom Jung felt could help him in the development of his psychoanalytic theory. Angulo's observations of D.H. Lawrence are astute, and often humorous. He sometimes found Lawrence "deep and keen and delightful," but at other times "ridiculous as only an Englishman can be ridiculous." Included in these papers is The Witch, a romantic, gothic novella set in Big Sur, which Angulo wrote on the first Taos visit and read aloud one evening to Lawrence, the Luhans, and their friends--to a not unmixed response.…

Paperback.