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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Journal of American Folklore
Author: Walking With Spirits Volume 4 Native American Myths, Legends, And Folklore
Author: G.W. MullinsPublisher: Light Of The Moon Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Materials for the Study of the Ainu Language and Folklore (Cracow 1912)
Author: Bronislaw PilsudskiPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110818833
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation
Author: Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society
Author: Encyclopedia of Giants and Humanoids in Myth, Legend and Folklore
Author: Theresa BanePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476623384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Every culture has in its folklore and mythology beings of immense size and strength, as well as other preternatural humanoids great or small who walk among us, serving the divine or fulfilling their own agendas. This book catalogs the lore and legends of more than 1,000 different humanoid species and individual beings, including the Titans, Valkyries, Jotnar, yōkai, biblical giants, elves, ogres, trolls and many more.
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural HistoryPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Pueblo Gods and Myths
Author: Hamilton A. TylerPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806111124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Here is a thorough, and long-needed, presentation of the nature of the Pueblo gods and myths. The Pueblo Indians, which include the Hopi, Zuni, and Keres groups, and their ancestors are closely bound to the Plateau region of the United States, comprising much of the area in Utah, Colorado, and–especially in recent years–New Mexico and Arizona. The principal god of the Hopi tribe was and is Masau'u, the god of death. Masau'u is also a god of life in many of its essentials. There is an unmistakable analogy between Masau'u and the Christian Devil, and between Masau'u and the Greek god Hermes, who guided dead souls on their journey to the nether world. Mr. Tyler has drawn many useful comparisons between the religions of the Pueblos and the Greeks. "Because there is a widespread knowledge of the Greek gods and their ways," the author writes, "many people will thus be at ease with the Pueblo gods and myths." Of utmost importance is the final chapter of the book, which relates Pueblo cosmology to contemporary Western thought. The Pueblos are men and women who have faced, and are facing, problems common to all mankind. The response of the Pueblos to their challenges has been tempered by the role of religion in their lives. This account of their epic struggle to accommodate themselves and their society to the cosmic order is "must" reading for historians, ethnologists, students of comparative religion, and for all who take an interest in the role of religious devotion in their own lives.
American Indian Medicine
Author: Virgil J. VogelPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806170239
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. Itdiscusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were brought to the Indian by the white man. It also lists Indian drugs that have won acceptance in the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary. The influence of American Indian healing arts on the medicine and healing and pharmacology of the white man was considerable. For example, such drugs as insulin and penicillin were anticipated in rudimentary form by the aborigines. Coca leaves were used as narcotics by Peruvian Indians hundreds of years before Carl Koller first used cocaine as a local anesthetic in 1884. All together, about 170 medicines, mostly botanical, were contributed to the official compendia by Indians north of the Rio Grande, about 50 more coming from natives of the Latin-American and Caribbean regions. Impressions and attitudes of early explorers, settlers, physicians, botanists, and others regarding Indian curative practices are reported by geographical regions, with British, French, and Spanish colonies and the young United States separately treated. Indian theories of disease—sorcery, taboo violation, spirit intrusion, soul loss, unfulfilled dreams and desires, and so on -and shamanistic practices used to combat them are described. Methods of treating all kinds of injuries-from fractures to snakebite-and even surgery are included. The influence of Indian healing lore upon folk or domestic medicine, as well as on the "Indian doctors" and patent medicines, are discussed. For the convenience of the reader, an index of botanical names is provided, together with a wide variety of illustrations. The disproportionate attention that has been given to the superstitious and unscientific features of aboriginal medicine has tended to obscure its real contributions to American civilization.
Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association
Author: American Anthropological AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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