Inés Talamantez Explained
| Inés Talamantez |
| Birth Date: | October 31, 1930[1] |
| Birth Place: | Old Mesilla, New Mexico |
| Death Date: | September 27, 2019[2] |
| Workplaces: | University of California, Santa Barbara; Dartmouth College; Harvard University |
| Alma Mater: | University of California, San Diego BA & PhD |
| Main Interests: | Apache religion and culture |
| Principal Ideas: | Indigenous Studies Group at the American Academy of Religion. |
| Major Works: | Teaching Religion and Healing |
Inés M. Talamantez was an ethnographer and scholar of religion. She was professor of religious studies at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She was an expert on Native American religion and philosophy.
Biography
Talamantez was a member of the Mescalero Apache nation and was from New Mexico.[3]
Talamantez received her PhD in ethnopoetics and comparative literature from the University of California, San Diego. Talamantez is a member of UCSB's Religious Studies Department. She created a PhD program with an emphasis on Native American religious traditions. The program has awarded PhDs to at least 30 scholars.
Talamantez's areas of research are healing and religion in Native America, women in religion, nature and animals in Native American traditions, and religion and ecology.[4] She has argued on behalf of the preservation of languages, and says that an understanding of the language is necessary for Native American studies scholars.[5] Talamantez conducted anthropological field studies in Mexico and the Southwestern United States.[6] She spent years developing relationships with Apache communities, learning the language and offering up her work for corrections and approval from community members.[7]
Talamantez served as president of the Indigenous Studies Group at the American Academy of Religion. Talamantez co-edited the 2006 book Teaching Religion and Healing. She has been a contributing editor for the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.[8] She co-edited the first issue of to focus on American Indian women.[9]
Selected publications
- Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=OIYToTsac9MC&q=In%C3%A9s%20Talamantez&pg=PA142. In the Space Between the Earth and the Sky. Native Religions and Cultures of North America: Anthropology of the Sacred. Lawrence E. Sullivan. Continuum. New York. 2000. 9780826414861.
- "Vine Deloria Jr., Critic and Coyote: Transforming Universal Conceptions," a festschrift for Vine Deloria Jr., in press.
- "The Presence of Isanaklesh. The Apache Female Deity and the Path of Pollen," updated and reprinted in Unspoken Worlds: Women’s Religious Lives, Wadsworth Press, Third Edition, 2000.
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/chronicle/dr-ines-maria-talamantez-biography-of-a-founder-of-the-study-of-native-american-religious-traditions Dr. Inés Maria Talamantez: Biography of A Founder of the Study of Native American Religious Traditions
- https://chancellor.ucsb.edu/memos/2019-11-01-sad-news-professor-ines-talamantez Sad News - Professor Inés Talamantez
- Web site: Inés Talamantez Film Clips: Indian Identity. World Wisdom. 11 December 2015.
- Olupona. Jacob K.. Report of the Conference "Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity," March 28-31, 1996, University of California, Davis. Numen. September 1997. 44. 3. 330. 10.1163/1568527971655896. 3270251.
- Book: Gross. Lawrence W.. Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being. 2014. 978-1-4724-1734-3. 81. Ashgate Publishing .
- Back Matter. Yearbook for Traditional Music. 1986. 18. 215. 768546.
- Book: Crawford. Suzanne J.. Kelley. Dennis F.. American Indian Religious Traditions: A-I. 2005. ABC-CLIO. Santa Barbara, Calif.. 978-1-57607-517-3. 8. Academic Study of American Indian Religious Traditions. https://books.google.com/books?id=SEopBoB8ch0C&q=%22In%C3%A9s%20Talamantez%22&pg=PA8.
- Front Matter. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Fall 2002. 18. 2. 25002434.
- Reports of APA Committees. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. May 2003. 76. 5. 60. 3218654. Waters. Anne. Jiang. Xinyan. Boxill. Bernie. Lucas. George. Lachs. John. Cavalier. Robert. Corrado. Michael. Nuccetelli. Susana. Outlaw. Lucius. Olson. Alan M.. Chekola. Mark. McCarthy. Thomas. Kipnis. Ken. Lewis. Stephanie R.. Weinstein. Mark. Brand. Myles. Kegley. Jacquelyn Ann K.. Granitto. James V.. Tuana. Nancy.
