The Anthropology of Turquoise
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The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy
In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise-the color and the gem-to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape.From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground on the high plateaus and deep canyons of the Southwest, we journey with Meloy through vistas of both great beauty and great desecration. Her keen vision makes us look anew at ancestral mountains, turquoise seas, and even motel swimming pools. She introduces us to Navajo "velvet grandmothers" whose attire and aesthetics absorb the vivid palette of their homeland, as well as to Persians who consider turquoise the life-saving equivalent of a bullet-proof vest. Throughout, Meloy invites us to appreciate along with her the endless surprises in all of life and celebrates the seduction to be found in our visual surroundings.
ELLEN MELOY was a native of the West who resided in California, Montana, and Utah before receiving a Whiting Foundation Award in 1997. Her earlier book, The Anthropology of Turquoise, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the adventure and travel category and earned the Utah Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Festival Award. Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River and The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest are two of her other works. Meloy spent the majority of her life in wild, distant locations; she and her husband were living in southern Utah at the time of her untimely death in November 2004 (three months after finishing Eating Stone).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375708138 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375708138 |
| Title | The Anthropology of Turquoise |
| Author | Ellen Meloy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2003-07-08 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Utah Book Award (Nonfiction) 2002 |
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