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Inés Talamantez
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Biography
Inés Talamantez was professor of Religious Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara and founder of their doctoral program in Native American Religious Studies. During her years at UCSB she mentored dozens of graduate students, profoundly shaping this field of study. Her own research centered on her Mescalero Apache community, with particular emphasis on girls' coming of age ceremonies. Her publications include: “In the Space Between the Earth and the Sky,” in Native Religions and Cultures of North America: Anthropology of the Sacred; “The Presence of Isanaklesh. The Apache Female Deity and the Path of Pollen,” updated and reprinted in Unspoken Worlds: Women’s Religious Lives; and Teaching Religion and Healing, co-edited with Linda Barnes. She has a forthcoming book on Isanaklesh Gotal, the coming of age ceremony for Mescalero Apache girls.