Conceptions Of Death Among The Southwestern Indians

Constant features among the three tribes are fear of the dead (and the corollary that death is not the end); the concentration upon life as opposed to death; the relative lack of conscious rationalization to harmonize conflicting or contradictory conceptions; and the absence of any notion that the after-life can reward good behavior on earth or that immortality is a goal. From an address delivered in Harvard's Andover Chapel, April 6, 1948. Footnotes. Bibliography.