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Indian Time: A Year of Discovery With the Native Americans of the Southwest
by Judith Fein
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1993-09)
ISBN: 0671795767
EAN: 9780671795764
Dewy Decimal #: 973.04974
Hardcover: 380 pages
SKU: BX045-070508012
Condition: Used: Very Good Firs
Comments: Clean and shiny. Light wear, not pricecut. Pgs crisp, clean, tight, unmarked. No remainder mark.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A glimpse into native American life features the author's experiences while living among the Indian peoples of the American Southwest and the impact of native American culture on her own beliefs and attitudes. Tour.
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Customer Reviews
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Title should be Waste of Time rather than Indian Time!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-03-27
This is a perfect example a Twinky Book - in other words, a feel good type of writing with not much substance. The stories are full of stereotypes and offensive interpretations by some outsider attempting to understand her own physical and spiritual journey. This is self reflective of Fein's own misguided interpretation as seen through very clouded lenses. Fein has also been banned from the Pueblos for her offensive, intrusive and inaccurate writing. There was initial talk about Indian Time becoming a motion picture, and I hope this does not ever get to full production as this project would be a waste of time in light of the many wonderful films and literature about American Indians. Indian Time (Waste of Time) is definitely not worth the used book price of one cent!!
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Too Bad Garabage in Literature Does Exist!
Rating (1)
Date: 2002-09-19
4 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
She and her husband, Paul Ross are the only two modern people in over 100 years to be banned by the Eighth Northern Indian Pueblo's Council for "abusing our hospitality and goodwill."
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Perpetuating Nonsense
Rating (1)
Date: 2001-10-18
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Too bad one star is the lowest rating available - it deserves a
-5 rating. I read this book several years ago and still feel the fury of its trite silliness and warped view of Spanish/Mexican relations with the Native American. I keep it only to demonstrate that irresponsible writing about this era still exists. The shallowness of her research is reflected in the shallowness of her story. Who is this misguided yenta, this annionted one who assumes that her "whiteness" can bring the abused Indian together with the meanie Spanish? Words don't exist that adequately describe her cavalier attitude. This is the type of book Dorothy Parker had reviewed and wrote "This book should not be easily put down, it should be thrown against the wall with great force."
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A journey of the heart, I wish it had been mine!
Rating  (4)
Date: 2000-03-13
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
"~I was very entertained by this book. It gave me insight into a race of people that I have lived around and had an interest in most of my life. It has given me hope that someday when I return to New Mexico that I could experience getting to know these loving, giving and wonderful people. that they express, but then I am not a Native American Indian.
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A beautiful, honest journey into a very private world.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-03-06
5 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
I loved Judith Fein's "Indian Time." Ms. Fein has written a wonderful,honest, moving book that invites the reader to join this neurotic Jewish screenwriter as she ventures into the lives of Native Americans in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I would most highly recommend it for any non-Indian who wishes to experience what it might be like to venture into this very private and spiritual world.To her credit, Ms. Fein gives herself the "warts-and-all" treatment, painting herself as a multi-phobic who comes from Hollywood to Santa Fe in order to write about a subject she knows nothing about: the pueblos. Page after page, she admits her ignorance of what must seem basic to any Native American (e.g., the painful irony of Indians not being able to afford electricity when the electric company is actually using their land for free). But gradually she absorbs Native American ways -- their unity with nature and each other -- until they become HER way. This is also a fun road trip with Ms. Fein and her husband as they jump into their car at a moment's notice and race from hills to valleys to private homes to attend gatherings as honored guests...hunt for petroglyphs (which she describes in respectful, loving detail)... and participate in rituals which usually bar non-Indians or forbid picture taking. The book culminates in a breathtaking fiesta arranged by Fein herself (through a serendipitous series of adventures) between a willing group of Spanish and Native Americans who meet to exchange cultures and apologize for the history of hatred between them. But the real climax is when Fein herself and her steadfast (hilarious) companion of a husband, Paul, have to confront their former "cement and deal making" lives in L.A. and whether they can bear to leave Santa Fe after all they have learned from its people. We hold our breath with them and pray that they make the right decision.
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