Author: Alfred Louis KroeberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America
Author: A. L. KroeberPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520333829
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America
Author: Alfred Louis KroeberCultural and Natural Areas of Native North America
Author: A. L. KroeberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human geography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America
Author: Alfred Louis KroeberPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258768256
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
New Perspectives on Native North America
Author: Sergei KanPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080325363X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
In this volume some of the leading scholars working in Native North America explore contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. Written in honor of the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson, the volume charts the currents of contemporary scholarship while offering an invigorating challenge to researchers in the field. The essays employ a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and range widely across time and space. The introduction and first section consider the origins and legacies of various strands of interpretation, while the second part examines the relationship among culture, power, and creativity. The third part focuses on the cultural construction and experience of history, and the volume closes with essays on identity, difference, and appropriation in several historical and cultural contexts. Aimed at a broad interdisciplinary audience, the volume offers an excellent overview of contemporary perspectives on Native peoples.
Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America
Author: Alfred Louis KroeberPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Native Nations
Author: Nancy BonvillainPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442251468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Combining historical background with discussion of contemporary Native nations and their living cultures, this comprehensive text introduces students to some of the many indigenous peoples in North America. The book is organized into parts corresponding to regional divisions within which similar, though not identical, cultural practices developed. Each part opens with an overview of the topography, climate, and natural resources in the area, and describes the range of cultural practices and beliefs grounded in the area. Subsequent chapters are devoted to specific tribal groups, their history, and the conditions of contemporary Native communities. Nancy Bonvillain provides context for the regional and tribe-specific chapters through a brief overview of Native American history beginning around 1500 and covering the early period of European exploration and colonization. She details both U.S. and Canadian policies affecting the lives, cultures, and survival of more than five hundred Native nations on this continent. Finally, she offers up-to-date demographics and addresses significant social, economic, and political issues concerning Native communities. The second edition features new material throughout, including a new two-chapter section on the Native nations of the Plateau, expanded introductory material addressing topics such as climate change and recent Supreme Court decisions, up-to-date demographic and economic data, and more.
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature
Author: Rani-Henrik AnderssonPublisher: Helsinki University Press
ISBN: 9523690590
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
National parks and other preserved spaces of nature have become iconic symbols of nature protection around the world. However, the worldviews of Indigenous peoples have been marginalized in discourses of nature preservation and conservation. As a result, for generations of Indigenous peoples, these protected spaces of nature have meant dispossession, treaty violations of hunting and fishing rights, and the loss of sacred places. Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature brings together anthropologists and archaeologists, historians, linguists, policy experts, and communications scholars to discuss differing views and presents a compelling case for the possibility of more productive discussions on the environment, sustainability, and nature protection. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia to Latin America and from North America to New Zealand, the volume challenges the old paradigm where Indigenous peoples are not included in the conservation and protection of natural areas and instead calls for the incorporation of Indigenous voices into this debate. This original and timely edited collection offers a global perspective on the social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges facing Indigenous peoples and their governmental and NGO counterparts in the co-management of the planet’s vital and precious preserved spaces of nature.
Native North America
Author: Larry J. ZimmermanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333674390
Category : Indian mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Presents a brief history of Native Americans, and features a region-by-region exploration of individual culture areas, discussing spiritual observances, the powwow, oral storytelling, rites of passage, plant rituals, the drum, the ghost dance, dreams, and the challenges of modern life.
A Cultural Geography Of North American Indians
Author: Thomas E. RossPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429712758
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This book focuses on the effects of interaction between Indian and non-Indian peoples and on the complex relationships between Indians and their environments. It presents information for an accurate assessment of whether North American Indians can survive as a distinct culture. .