Zuni and the American Imagination

A bold new study of the Zuni, of the first anthropologists who studied them, and of the effect of Zuni on America's sense of itself

The Zuni society existed for centuries before there was a United States, and it still exists in its desert pueblo in what is now New Mexico. In the late nineteenth century, anthropologists-among the first in this new discipline-came to Zuni to study it and, they believed, to salvage what they could of its tangible culture before it was destroyed, which they wer...