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Book Synopsis Hopi Katsina Anomalies by : Barent W. Walsh
Download or read book Hopi Katsina Anomalies written by Barent W. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In researching his previous book, The Great Tradition of Hopi Katsina Carvers: 1880 to Present, the author noticed several interesting topics emerge that opened up a whole new world of discovery. People have long been fascinated with Hopi Katsinas. They are colorful artwork with spiritual significance and are woven into the fabric of Hopi Indian culture. Hopi katsina tradition is largely standardized and the art form is steeped in tradition. Hopi carvers have shared with the author that there are a lot of rules and prohibitions. After being a collector and dealer for more than thirty years, the author has seen literally thousands of katsina carvings in museums, books, auctions, galleries, and personal collections. In his years of researching, learning about past carvers, interviewing current carvers, and talking to other people in Hopiland, he discovered katsina anomalies or exceptions or variations, even eccentricities. This book focuses on a variety of anomalies, including the unusual, the rare, and the truly unique"--
Book Synopsis American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide by : Susan Barba
Download or read book American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide written by Susan Barba and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized as a field guide, a literary anthology filled with classic and contemporary poems and essays inspired by wildflowers—perfect for writers, artists, and botanists alike American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world. Editor Susan Barba has curated a selection of plants and texts that celebrate diversity: There are foreign-born writers writing about American plants and American writers on non-native plants. There are rural writers with deep regional knowledge and urban writers who are intimately acquainted with the nature in their neighborhoods. There are female writers, Black writers, gay writers, indigenous writers. There are botanists like William Bartram, George Washington Carver, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, and horticultural writers like Neltje Blanchan and Eleanor Perényi. There are prose pieces by Aldo Leopold, Lydia Davis, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. And most of all, there are poems: from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams and T. S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, Lucille Clifton and Louise Glück, Natalie Diaz and Jericho Brown. The book includes exquisite watercolors by Leanne Shapton throughout and is organized by species and botanical family—think of it as a field guide to the literary imagination.
Download or read book American Indian Art Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Enduring Seeds by : Gary Paul Nabhan
Download or read book Enduring Seeds written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this book, one of America's leading ethnobotanists warns about our loss of natural vegetation and plant diversity while providing insights into traditional Native agricultural practices in the Americas. Gary Paul Nabhan here reveals the rich diversity of plants found in tropical forests and their contribution to modern crops, then tells how this diversity is being lost to agriculture and lumbering. He then relates "local parables" of Native American agriculture—from wild rice in the Great Lakes region to wild gourds in Florida—that convey the urgency of this situation and demonstrate the need for saving the seeds of endangered plants. Nabhan stresses the need for maintaining a wide gene pool, not only for the survival of these species but also for the preservation of genetic strains that can help scientists breed more resilient varieties of other plants. Enduring Seeds is a book that no one concerned with our environment can afford to ignore. It clearly shows us that, as agribusiness increasingly limits the food on our table, a richer harvest can be had by preserving ancient ways. This edition features a new foreword by Miguel Altieri, one of today's leading spokesmen for sustainable agriculture and the preservation of indigenous farming methods.
Download or read book The Orion Zone written by Gary A. David and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 2007-02-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David explores the ground-sky relationship between the pyramids of Egypt and the stars of Orion and ponders its global reach and significance. Packed with diagrams, maps, and astronomical charts, this useful guidebook decodes the ancient mysteries of the Pueblo Indian world.
Book Synopsis Beyond Liminality by : Jack David Eller
Download or read book Beyond Liminality written by Jack David Eller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Liminality: Ontologies of Abundant Betweenness examines the concept of liminality in the social sciences and humanities, and advocates for a more critical use of the concept while offering more precise alternatives. Originally conceived in response to the near-universal ritualization of changes of status (i.e., "rites of passage"), liminality was a welcome and much-needed correction to the reigning static and structural models of culture at the time. However, it soon escaped its initial realm and was enthusiastically—and mostly uncritically—absorbed by many if not all scholarly disciplines. The very success of the concept suggests that there is something about it that resonates with our own cultural sentiments. However, the assumptions that underlie diagnoses of liminality are seldom noted and even more seldom analyzed and critiqued. This book examines the history of the concept, its evolution, and its current status, and asks whether liminality accurately reflects lived realities which might better be described by fluidity, hybridity, multiplicity, constant motion and recombination, and abundant betweenness. Beyond Liminality: Ontologies of Abundant Betweenness is key reading for scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities interested in ritual, performance, identity formation, rights, ontology, and epistemology.
Book Synopsis The Power of Ritual in Prehistory by : Brian Hayden
Download or read book The Power of Ritual in Prehistory written by Brian Hayden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.
Book Synopsis Dining with the Dead by : Mariana Nuno Ruiz McEnroe
Download or read book Dining with the Dead written by Mariana Nuno Ruiz McEnroe and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dining with the Dead is an unforgettable cultural and culinary odyssey. Traditional, celebratory Mexican food is the soul of this one-of-a-kind cookbook. Make tamales, pozoles, pan de muerto, and many other festive, iconic dishes. Learn about altars, sugar skulls, and decorations. Unlock the essence of chiles, make scratch tortillas, and perfect the king of the moles. Highlights:? 112+ delicious recipes? 540+ beautiful and mouthwatering photos? 8 x 10-inch hardcover? Ingredients and how to find them and treat them? Numbered instructions? Photographic step-by-step instructions? Homemade foods, created from scratch? Crafting instructions included as well? Learn the origins of Día de Muertos? Learn about altars and ofrendas (offerings)? Venture into the night vigil at the cemetery in Mexico
Book Synopsis A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians by : Thomas Biolsi
Download or read book A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians written by Thomas Biolsi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is comprised of 27 original contributions by leading scholars in the field and summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. Surveys the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture Each chapter provides definitive coverage of its topic, as well as situating ethnographic and ethnohistorical data into larger frameworks Explores anthropology’s contribution to knowledge, its historic and ongoing complicities with colonialism, and its political and ethical obligations toward the people 'studied'
Download or read book Kachina Dolls written by Helga Teiwes and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Hopi kachina dolls as an art form, explains the role of Kachina dolls in Hopi culture, and profiles twenty-seven modern kachina doll carvers
Download or read book America B.C. written by Barry Fell and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Druids in Vermont? Phoenicians in Iowa? These are just a few of the interesting bits of information contained in this volume of American pre-history. This groundbreaking work shatters many of the myths of America centuries ago.
Book Synopsis Serpent Worship in Africa by : Wilfrid Dyson Hambly
Download or read book Serpent Worship in Africa written by Wilfrid Dyson Hambly and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood by : Sally Elizabeth Ellen Crawford
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood written by Sally Elizabeth Ellen Crawford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, experts from around the world investigate childhood in the past, showing why it is important to understand childhood, why different cultures construct different ideas of how to rear children, what part children play in the community, and when and why childhood ends.
Book Synopsis American Indian Religious Traditions by : Suzanne J. Crawford O'Brien
Download or read book American Indian Religious Traditions written by Suzanne J. Crawford O'Brien and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Book Synopsis The Wisdom of the Native Americans by : Kent Nerburn
Download or read book The Wisdom of the Native Americans written by Kent Nerburn and published by New World Library. This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collections of writings by revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons and thought-provoking teachings on living and learning.
Download or read book Medicine Cards written by Jamie Sams and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling divination system--over 1,000,000 copies sold worldwide--revised and expanded for the first time.
Book Synopsis Social Theory in Archaeology by : Michael B. Schiffer
Download or read book Social Theory in Archaeology written by Michael B. Schiffer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the debut of the New Archaeology in the 1960s, approaches to the science of interpreting the material past have proliferated. Seeking to find common ground in an increasingly fractious and polarized discipline, a group of archaeological theorists representing various schools of thought gathered in a roundtable during the fall of 1997. As organizer, Michael Schiffer sought to build bridges that might begin to span the conceptual chasms that have formed in archaeology during the past few decades. Many participants in the roundtable accepted the challenge of building bridges, but some rejected the premise that bridge building is desirable or feasible. Even so, every chapter in the resulting volume contributes something provocative or significant to the enterprise of constructing social theory in archaeology and setting the agenda for future social-theoretic research. With contributions from every major school of thought, whether informed by evolutionary theory, feminism, chaos theory, behavioralism, or post-processualism, this volume serves as both handbook to an array of theoretical approaches and as a useful look at each school's response to criticism.
