Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Keresan Texts
Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Acoma Grammar and Texts
Author: Wick R. MillerPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Looking for Lost Lore
Author: George E. LankfordPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817354794
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Folklore as a serious adjunct to history, anthropology, and religious studies
Laguna Pueblo
Author: Lee MarmonPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826355358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes. Here more than one hundred of Marmon's photos showcase his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people. Along with Marmon's own oral history of the tribe and his family photos dating back to 1872, Tom Corbett presents archival images and historical research, making this the most complete published history of any southwestern pueblo. Marmon and Corbett also interviewed noted tribal elders and oral historians regarding customs, religious practices, and events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The resulting narrative provides a fascinating story of survival through severe natural and man-made adversities, including droughts, plagues, marauding tribes, and cultural invasion. Through it all, Laguna has preserved its culture and retained sovereign powers over the pueblo and its territory.
Uto-Aztecan
Author: Eugene H. CasadPublisher: USON
ISBN: 9789706890306
Category : Indians of Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A Story as Sharp as a Knife
Author: Robert BringhurstPublisher: D & M Publishers
ISBN: 1553658906
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For a thousand years and more before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished in these islands. The masterworks of classical Haida sculpture, now enshrined in many of the world's great museums, range from exquisite tiny amulets to magnificent huge housepoles. Classical Haida literature is every bit as various and fine. It extends from tiny jewels crafted by master songmakers to elaborate mythic cycles lasting many hours. The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form. Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve.
The Acoma Language
Author: Wick R. MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acoma language
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The Search for a Woman-centered Spirituality
Author: Annette J. Van DykePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814787700
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Examining the work and writings of such figures as Leslie Marmon Silko, Paula Gunn Allen, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Starhawk, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sonial Johnson and Mary Daly, the author illustrates how these writers and activists outline a journey toward wholeness.
Hopi Journal of Alexander M. Stephen
Author: Alexander MacGregor StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hopi Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Voices of Modernity
Author: Richard BaumanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This novel reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that new ways of imagining language and representing supposedly premodern people - the poor, labourers, country folk, non-europeans and women - made political and scientific revolutions possible. The connections between language ideologies, privileged linguistic codes, and political concepts and practices shape the diverse ways we perceive ourselves and others. Bauman and Briggs demonstrate that contemporary efforts to make schemes of social inequality based on race, gender, class and nationality seem compelling and legitimate, rely on deeply-rooted ideas about language and tradition. Showing how critics of modernity unwittingly reproduce these foundational fictions, they suggest new strategies for challenging the undemocratic influence of these voices of modernity.