Author: G.W. Mullins
Publisher: Light Of The Moon Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Author: Karl Kroeber
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803277854
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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This challenging study analyzes nearly forty superb stories, from mythic narratives predating Columbus to contemporary American Indian fiction, representing every traditional Native American culture area. Developing recent ethnopoetic scholarship and drawing on the critical ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin and Pierre Bourdieu, Karl Kroeber reveals how preconceptions deriving from our hypervisual, print-dominated culture distort our understanding of essential functions and forms of oral storytelling. Kroeber demonstrates that myths do not merely preserve tradition but may transform it by performatively reenacting the concealed sociological and psychological conflicts that give rise to social institutions. Showing how the variability of mythic narrative fosters communal self-renewal, Kroeber offers startling insight into Native Americans' perception of animals as "cultured, " their creation of visually unrepresentable tricksters by aural imagining, and the rhetorical means through which oral narratives may not only reflect but even redirect political change. By making understandable the forgotten artistry of oral storytelling, Kroeber enables modern readers to appreciate fully the tragic emotions, hilarious ribaldry, and haunting beauty in these astonishing Native American mythic narratives. Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. His most recent books are Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of the Mind and Retelling/Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times.

Author: Tom Lowenstein
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1448859921
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Examines the myths and beliefs of Native Americans.

Author: W. Jackson Rushing III
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136180109
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painitng, sculpture, printmaking, photography and performance art by some of the most celebrated Native American and Canadian First Nation artists of our time The contributors use new theoretical and critical approaches to address key issues for Native American art, including symbolism and spirituality, the role of patronage and musuem practices, the politics of art criticism and the aesthetic power of indigenous knowledge. The artist contributors, who represent several Native nations - including Cherokee, Lakota, Plains Cree, and those of the PLateau country - emphasise the importance of traditional stories, myhtologies and ceremonies in the production of comtemporary art. Within great poignancy, thye write about recent art in terms of home, homeland and aboriginal sovereignty Tracing the continued resistance of Native artists to dominant orthodoxies of the art market and art history, Native American Art in the Twentieth Century argues forcefully for Native art's place in modern art history.

Author: Jim Ollhoff
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1617840297
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Who is Kokyanwuuti? What is a shaman? Why are myths so important in our lives? Myths are a rich source of history. People use them to make sense of our world. Even before myths were written down, people told and retold the stories of the gods and goddesses of their homeland. Readers of American Indian Mythology will learn the history of myths, as well as their deeper meaning. From the Southeast tribes stories of how people got fire to the plains tribes stories of the Buffalo Woman, this book helps kids understand the myths that shape and direct people's lives. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author: Hartley Burr Alexander
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486122794
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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This fascinating and informative compendium, assembled by a celebrated anthropologist, offers a remarkably wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation myths, end-time prophecies, and other traditional tales.

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Publisher: Light of the Moon Publishing
ISBN: 9781647133344
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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C.L. Hause, illustrator of the best-selling series "Walking With Spirits - Native American Myths, Legends, And Folklore Volumes 1-6" and "The Native American Story Book - Stories Of The American Indians For Children Volumes 1-5" returns with "The Native American Art Book - Art Inspired By Native American Myths And Legends." Light Of The Moon Publishing has releases this full colored coffee table print book by award winning artist and illustrator C.L. Hause (Winner Of The Johnny Hart Memorial Award "BC Comics"). In this new book, Hause expresses his art aesthetic in traditional and sometimes an abstract interpretation of Native American myths and legends, continuing their tradition of storytelling in a new medium. His works of art are meant to draw the viewer into the piece, so that they become a part of it. By breathing this "new life" into the tradition, he believes he is keeping these stories, these events these histories alive. Along with a large collection of visually appealing art, this book also contains short stories, prayers and quotations by famous Native American figures that are meant to inspire and motivate the reader.

Author: Lewis Spence
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486112357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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DIVDrawn from the legends of the Algonquins, Iroquois, Sioux, Pawnee, and Northern and Northwestern Indians, these enchanting tales offer rich insights into tribal character and beliefs. /div

Author: Lewis Spence
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026888944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1580

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This study presents the myths, beliefs and customs of the indigenous peoples in North America. This collection is comprised of many bodies of traditional narratives associated with religion from a mythographical perspective. Contents: The Myths of the North American Indians Myths of the Cherokee Myths of the Iroquois A Study of Siouan Cults Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths The Mountain Chant - A Navajo Ceremony

Author: C. L. Hause
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537797250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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C.L. Hause, illustrator of the best-selling series "Walking With Spirits - Native American Myths, Legends, And Folklore Volumes 1-6" and "The Native American Story Book - Stories Of The American Indians For Children Volumes 1-5" returns with "The Native American Art Book - Art Inspired By Native American Myths And Legends." Light Of The Moon Publishing has releases this full colored coffee table print book by award winning artist and illustrator C.L. Hause (Winner Of The Johnny Hart Memorial Award "BC Comics"). In this new book, Hause expresses his art aesthetic in traditional and sometimes an abstract interpretation of Native American myths and legends, continuing their tradition of storytelling in a new medium. His works of art are meant to draw the viewer into the piece, so that they become a part of it. By breathing this "new life" into the tradition, he believes he is keeping these stories, these events these histories alive. Along with a large collection of visually appealing art, this book also contains short stories, prayers and quotations by famous Native American figures that are meant to inspire and motivate the reader.