Author: Jeremiah CurtinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seneca Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths ...
Author: Jeremiah CurtinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seneca Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths
Author: Jeremiah CurtinPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2538
Book Description
This book is a collection of folklores from The Seneca, a noted and influential Native American tribe of the Iroquois, or the so-called Five Nations of New York. They are now settled chiefly on the Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Tonawanda reservations in New York and some live on the Grand River reservations in Ontario, Canada. Featured in this book are myths and legends such as the two-headed snake, Haieñdoñnis and Yenogeauns, as well as the story of the bloody hand.
Gemini and the Sacred
Author: Kimberley C. PattonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786735911
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Why do twins remain uncanny to those born alone-in other words, most of us? Even with the rise of IVF and an increase in multiple births, why do we still do “a double take” when we encounter twins? Why has this been a near-universal response throughout human history, and how has it played out in religion and myth? Through the work of leading scholars in religion, folklore and mythology, history, anthropology, and archaeology, Gemini and the Sacred explores how twinship has long been imagined, especially in the complex relationship of sacred twin traditions to “twins on the ground” in biology and lived experience. The book considers the multiple ways in which the “doubling” of a human being may be interpreted as auspicious and powerful-or suppressed as unstable and dangerous. Why has this been so and how does it affect living twins today? Treating both famous and lesser-known twins-including supernatural animal twins-in the ancient Near Eastern and classical Mediterranean worlds; early Christianity and Gnosticism; Vedic, Hindu, West African, Black Atlantic, and native American traditions; ancient Mesoamerica, Celtic Roman Britain, and Scandinavia; and in the special, fraught bond shared by all twins, the book offers a variety of perspectives on this topic of great cultural significance.
Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples
Author: Graeme MortonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773588817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish and Scottish migrants had with Indigenous peoples in North America and Australasia. The Irish and Scots were among the most active and enthusiastic participants in what one contributor describes as "the greatest single period of land theft, cultural pillage, and casual genocide in world history." At the same time, some settlers attempted to understand Indigenous society rather than destroy it, while others incorporated a romanticized view of Natives into a radical critique of European society, and others still empathized with Natives as fellow victims of imperialism. These essays investigate the extent to which the condition of being Irish and Scottish affected settlers' attitudes to Indigenous peoples, and examine the political, social, religious, cultural, and economic dimensions of their interactions. Presenting a variety of viewpoints, the editors reach the provocative conclusion that the Scottish and Irish origins of settlers were less important in determining attitudes and behaviour than were the specific circumstances in which those settlers found themselves at different times and places in North America, Australia and New Zealand. Contributors include Donald Harman Akenson (Queen's), John Eastlake (College Cork), Marjory Harper (Aberdeen), Andrew Hinson (Toronto), Michele Holmgren (Mount Royal), Kevin Hutchings (Northern British Columbia), Anne Lederman (Royal Conservatory of Music), Patricia A. McCormack (Alberta), Mark G. McGowan (Toronto), Ann McGrath (Australian National), Cian T. McMahon (Nevada), Graeme Morton (Guelph), Michael Newton (Xavier), Pádraig Ó Siadhail (Saint Mary's), Brad Patterson (Victoria University of Wellington), Beverly Soloway (Lakehead), and David A. Wilson (Toronto).
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Board of RegentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Report of the Secretary ... and Financial Report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in science
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American EthnologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Vols. for 1897,1901, 1912-13, and 1915 include extracts from the 16th, 17th, 28th and 30th annual report of the Bureau, respectively.
Themes in Linguistics
Author: Eric P. HampPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110869470
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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