INDIAN TIME

INDIAN TIME Judith Fein (Simon & Schuster, $25) Fein went to Santa Fe, N.M., to write a TV documentary about Pueblo Indians and found personal renewal with them. Her memoirs smother a pleasant blend of anthropology and spiritualism under frothy chatter. With loving precision, she describes Apache dances that help defeat her crippling phobias. She revels in her new freedom, wondering of her former L.A. existence, ''How could we have lived without sky for so long?'' But she wallows in platitudes (''The farther back you go, the closer you get to THE SOURCE'') and cheerleaderesque descriptions of expanded consciousness (''It just strips me naked and pushes me out of the comfort zone!''). Statements such as these trivialize her complex, fascinating picture of Indian culture and history. B- -Kate Wilson