Title: Beyond The Four Corners of the World: A Navajo Woman’s
Journey
In this compelling account of a remarkable woman and her struggle
to find her place in the world, we follow Ella Bedonie from her
childhood tending sheep in the high desert canyons of the Navajo
Indian reservation and sleeping on hogan floors to the long,
frightening bus ride to boarding school, and on into the white world
and a college degree. We meet her grandparents and her parents,
who plant corn and worship their gods much as their own
grandparents did. We meet her husband and her children, whose
lives straddle two worlds - ancient and modern, sacred and profane.
As their stories unfold, we come to appreciate the Navajo society
into which Ella was born - still in the 1950s an almost nineteenth-
century world of visions and spirits, a world ordered by the
unambiguous demands of religious tradition and ritual. We see that
now, because of the genius of the Navajo culture for incorporating
change, it is a world in which the established has made room for
the new while at the same time maintaining its unique bond with
the past.
By: Emily Benedek
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY
ISBN: 0-679-42143-2
Copyright: 1995. Stated First Edition.
Size/Format: 5 ¾” x 8 5/8”, hardcover with dust jacket, 343 pages.
Condition: Clean, crisp & tight, no markings. Minor shelf wear on
dust jacket.
See the other books we currently have in our store. We will combine
shipping on multiple purchases.
We securely pack the book for shipment. US buyer pays $3.95 Media
Mail shipping, Priority Mail available by request. Each additional book
to the US is $1.00 shipping. International buyers, please email for
shipping rates.
US buyers can pay by credit card with PayPal or Google checkout.
To pay by money order, check or cashier's check, click on "money
order" on the checkout page.