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Download or read book Earthmaker written by Jay Miller and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful collection of Native stories telling of the old time, before Europeans and Africans forced huge changes on the Americas. The ancient tales relate Native joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, and plans and misadventures in a conversational style characteristic of their original telling.
Book Synopsis Teachings from the American Earth by : Dennis Tedlock
Download or read book Teachings from the American Earth written by Dennis Tedlock and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss North American Indian views of medicine, the spiritual world, the ghost dance, peyote, death, reality, and the world.
Download or read book The Winnebago Tribe written by Paul Radin and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Road of Life and Death by : Paul Radin
Download or read book The Road of Life and Death written by Paul Radin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience. Performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult, this secret rite recapitulated the mythic origins and heroes of the Winnebago while integrating those present with the ancestral forces.
Book Synopsis This Thing Called Music by : Victoria Lindsay Levine
Download or read book This Thing Called Music written by Victoria Lindsay Levine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences, the search for music itself—in its vastly complex and diverse forms throughout the world—characterizes the lifetime of reflection and writing by Bruno Nettl, the leading ethnomusicologist of the past generation. This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl salutes not only a great scholar and beloved teacher, but also a thinker whose search for the meaning and ontology of music has exerted a global influence. Editors Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman have gathered essays that represent the many dimensions of musical meaning, addressing some of the most critically important areas of music scholarship today. The social formations of musical communities play counterpoint to analytical studies; investigations into musical change and survival connect ethnography to history, offering a collection of essays that can serve as an invaluable resource for the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. Each chapter explores music and its meanings in specific geographic areas—North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East—crossing the boundaries of genre, repertory, and style to provide insight into the aesthetic zones of contact between and among the folk, classical, and popular musics of the world. Readers from all disciplines of music scholarship will find in this collection a proper companion in an era of globalization, when the connections that draw musicians and musical practices together are more sweeping than ever. Chapters offer models for detailed analysis of specific musical practices, while at the same time they make possible new methods of comparative study in the twenty-first century, together posing a challenge crucial to all musicians and scholars in search of “this thing called music.”
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Download or read book Annual Report written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Archaeology of the Soul by : Robert L. Hall
Download or read book An Archaeology of the Soul written by Robert L. Hall and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The richness and the range of Native American spirituality has long been noted, but it has never been examined so thoroughly, nor with such an eye for the amazing interconnectedness of Indian tribal ceremonies and practices, as in An Archaeology of the Soul. In this monumental work, destined to become a classic in its field, Robert Hall traces the genetic and historical relationships of the tribes of the Midwest and Plains--including roots that extend back as far as 3,000 years. Looking beyond regional barriers, An Archaeology of the Soul offers new depths of insight into American Indian ethnography. Hall uncovers the lineage and kinship shared by Native North Americans through the perspectives of history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, biological anthropology, linguistics, and mythology. The wholeness and panoramic complexity of American Indian belief has never been so fully explored--or more deeply understood.
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution by : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spirits of Earth by : Robert A. Birmingham
Download or read book Spirits of Earth written by Robert A. Birmingham and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds—including the world’s largest known bird effigy—at the center of effigy-building culture in and around Madison, Wisconsin. These huge earthworks, sculpted in the shape of birds, mammals, and other figures, have aroused curiosity for generations and together comprise a vast effigy mound ceremonial landscape. Farming and industrialization destroyed most of these mounds, leaving the mysteries of who built them and why they were made. The remaining mounds are protected today and many can be visited. explores the cultural, historical, and ceremonial meanings of the mounds in an informative, abundantly illustrated book and guide. Finalist, Social Science, Midwest Book Awards
Book Synopsis Native American Mythology A to Z by : Facts On File, Incorporated
Download or read book Native American Mythology A to Z written by Facts On File, Incorporated and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents detailed coverage of the deities, legendary heroes and heroines, important animals, objects, and places that make up the mythic lore of the many peoples of North America.
Book Synopsis Tales of the Earth by : David Leeming
Download or read book Tales of the Earth written by David Leeming and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing analysis of key themes in Native American origin myths—and their stark contrast with the exceptionalist values of the United States. Tales of the Earth is a comprehensive yet concise overview of Native American mythologies. After outlining theories of the origins of Native North Americans, David Leeming considers the creation myths of many tribes, emphasizing four commonly occurring figures: the Great Spirit, the trickster, the goddess, and the hero. Leeming suggests that in addition to these figures, Native American mythologies have in common a deep reverence for the earth and for community responsibility as opposed to individualism—tenets that stand in stark contrast to the concepts of exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny that characterize the United States, a nation that was built on ancient tribal land.
Download or read book Crashing Thunder written by Sam Blowsnake and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mythology for Storytellers by : Howard J Sherman
Download or read book Mythology for Storytellers written by Howard J Sherman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated in full color throughout, this delightful collection puts the riches of world mythology at the fingertips of students and storytellers alike. It is a treaury of favorite and little-known tales from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania, gracefully retold and accompanied by fascinating, detailed information on their historic and cultural backgrounds. The introduction provides an informative overview of mythology, its purpose in world cultures, and myth in contemporary society and popular culture. Mythic themes are defined and the often-misunderstood difference between myth and legend explained. Following this, the main sections of the book are arranged thematically, covering The Creation, Death and Rebirth, Myths of Origins, Myths of the Gods, and Myths of Heroes. Each section begins by comparing its theme cross-culturally, explaining similarities and differences in the mthic narratives. Myths from diverse cultures are then presented, introduced, and retold in a highly readable fashion. A bibliography follows each retelling so readers can find more information on the culture, myth, and deities. Character, geographical, and general indexes round out this volume, and a master bibliography facilitates research. For students, storytellers, or anyone interested in the wealth of world mythology, Mythology: Stories and Themes from Around the World provides answers to common research questions, sources for myths, and stories that will delight, inform, and captivate.
Download or read book Isuma written by Michael Robert Evans and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since director Zacharias Kunuk was awarded the Camera d'Or Award at Cannes in 2001, Igloolik Isuma Productions has been among the most well-known and influential indigenous film companies in the world. Isuma's premier movie, Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) - the first-ever feature film produced by the Inuit and presented entirely in the Inuktitut language - has received numerous awards and critical acclaim.
Download or read book California written by John Mack Faragher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation "A masterful history."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California's multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles."--Carlos E. Cortés, University of California, Riverside California is the most multicultural state in America. As John Mack Faragher explains in this new history, California's natural variety has always supported such diversity, including Native peoples speaking dozens of distinct languages, Spanish and Mexican colonists, gold seekers from all corners of the globe, and successive migrant waves from the eastern United States and from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Faragher tells the stories of a colorful cast of characters--some famous, others mostly unknown--including African American Archy Lee, who sued for his freedom; Sinkyone Indian woman Sally Bell, who survived genocide; and Jewish schoolgirl Marilyn Greene, who spoke up for her Japanese friends after the attack on Pearl Harbor. California's diversity has often led to conflict, turmoil, and violence but also to invention, improvisation, and a struggle to achieve multicultural democracy.
Book Synopsis Glorantha: the Second Age by : Robin D. Laws
Download or read book Glorantha: the Second Age written by Robin D. Laws and published by Mongoose Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the Second Age of Glorantha, this full color sourcebook is the essential guide to the classic RuneQuest setting. This book will place Games Masters and players alike straight into this world, allowing them to visualize the places they visit as no world book has yet done. No settlement will feel like "just another town" in Glorantha, as players travel across the wilderness in the search for Runes, glory and ultimate power.
Book Synopsis The Autobiography of A Winnebago Indian by : Paul Radin
Download or read book The Autobiography of A Winnebago Indian written by Paul Radin and published by Namaskar Book. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a cultural odyssey with Paul Radin as he shares the rich tapestry of Winnebago Indian life, weaving together stories of heritage, wisdom, and the spirit of resilience. Explore the rich tapestry of tribal narratives with Paul Radin's captivating autobiography, "The Autobiography of A Winnebago Indian: Paul Radin's Tribal Narratives." Join Radin on a cultural odyssey as he shares the stories, traditions, and unique perspective of the Winnebago people, offering a glimpse into the richness of Native American heritage. As Radin unfolds the narratives of his tribe, immerse yourself in the oral traditions passed down through generations. His autobiography becomes a bridge between worlds, inviting you to appreciate the resilience, wisdom, and unique worldview of the Winnebago Indian community. But here's the twist that will broaden your cultural horizons: What if the tribal narratives Radin presents are not just historical artifacts but living expressions of a vibrant culture? Could his autobiography be an invitation to explore and respect the diversity of Native American traditions? Engage with short, culturally resonant paragraphs that navigate the intricate tapestry of Winnebago narratives. Radin's words beckon you to listen and learn from a cultural heritage that transcends time, fostering a deeper understanding of indigenous perspectives. Are you prepared to embark on a cultural journey with Paul Radin and the Winnebago Indian community? Immerse yourself in paragraphs that bridge the gap between past and present. Radin's narrative is not just an autobiography; it's an invitation to honor and appreciate the living traditions of the Winnebago people. Will you heed the call to explore the richness of Native American heritage? Here's your chance to not just read but to become a part of a cultural narrative. Acquire "The Autobiography of A Winnebago Indian: Paul Radin's Tribal Narratives" now, and let Radin's words guide you through the vibrant tapestry of indigenous storytelling.
