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Author : Alfred Métraux
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Myths and Tales of the Matako Indians (the Gran Chaco, Argentina) written by Alfred Métraux and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Haynes Steward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians: The comparative ethnology of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Haynes Steward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Haynes Steward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians: The Marginal tribes written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Göteborgs etnografiska museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Etnologiska Studier written by Göteborgs etnografiska museum and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Meiburg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101911549
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A Most Remarkable Creature written by Jonathan Meiburg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history. “Deftly intertwine[s] natural history and human history, with insights and lessons that go far beyond the subject birds.”—David Sibley, author of What It's Like to Be a Bird “Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird so wickedly smart, curious, and social, it boggles the mind.”—Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Bird Way In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and inquisitive . . . quarrelsome and passionate," and so insatiably curious that they stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it. Almost two hundred years later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase. He takes us through South America, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana, in search of these birds: striated caracaras, which still exist, though they're very rare. He reveals the wild, fascinating story of their history, origins, and possible futures. And along the way, he draws us into the life and work of William Henry Hudson, the Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as an unsung wonder of the natural world, and to falconry parks in the English countryside, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory and problem-solving. A Most Remarkable Creature is a hybrid of science writing, travelogue, and biography, as generous and accessible as it is sophisticated, and absolutely riveting.
Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226474878
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Raw and the Cooked written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1983-03-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. . . . [It is] indispensable reading."—Natural History
Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226474960
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Naked Man written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-11-08 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place, a myth can change its content and yet retain its structural principles. . . . Apart from the complicated transformations discovered and the fascinating constructions placed on these, the stories themselves provide a feast."—Betty Abel, Contemporary Review "Lévi-Strauss uses the structural method he developed to analyze and 'decode' the mythology of native North Americans, focusing on the area west of the Rockies. . . . [The author] takes the opportunity to refute arguments against his method; his chapter 'Finale' is a defense of structural analysis as well as the closing statement of this four-volume opus which started with an 'Ouverture' in The Raw and the Cooked."—Library Journal "The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time."—Paul Stuewe, Quill and Quire
Author : Julian Haynes Steward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians: The comparative ethnology of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Haynes Steward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians: The marginal tribes written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Fox
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Mythological Foundations of the Epic Genre written by Hugh Fox and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the ancient myth of two twins voyaging to the House of the Sun, placing it in a worldwide context and relating it in real time to the palace temple complex at Tiawanaku, Bolivia.
Author : Gudmund Hatt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Asiatic Influences in American Folklore written by Gudmund Hatt and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J. Chacon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387483039
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)
Download or read book The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians written by Richard J. Chacon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume mainly focuses on the practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies in both North and South America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents) examine the evidence and causes of Amerindian trophy taking. Additionally, they present objectively and discuss dispassionately the topic of human proclivity toward ritual violence. This book fills the gap in literature on this subject.
Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226474823
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Jealous Potter written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Lévi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Lévi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism. "Electrifying. . . . A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis in action. . . . Can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone interested in that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and timeless myths that live on in all of us."—Jonathan Sharp, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "A characteristic tour de force. . . . One remains awed by him."—Colin Thubron, Sunday Times "With all its epistemological depth, the book reads at times like a Simenon or a Lewis Carroll, fusing concise methodology with mastery of style."—Bernadette Bucher, American Ethnologist "[An] engagingly provocative exploration of mythology in the Americas. . . . Always a good read."—Choice "A playful, highly entertaining book, fluently and elegantly translated by Bénédicte Chorier."—Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, New York Times Book Review
Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226474724
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Story of Lynx written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From time to time, a young girl who lived in the same cabin would grab the cane, also to scratch herself. In vain Wild Cat kept trying to talk her out of it. One day the young lady found herself pregnant; she gave birth to a boy. Coyote, another inhabitant of the village, became indignant. He talked all of the population into going to live elsewhere and abandoning the old Wild Cat, his wife, and their child to their fate . . . " So begins the Nez Percé myth that lies at the heart of The Story of Lynx, Claude Lévi-Strauss's most accessible examination of the rich mythology of American Indians. In this wide-ranging work, the master of structural anthropology considers the many variations in a story that occurs in both North and South America, but especially among the Salish-speaking peoples of the Northwest Coast. He also shows how centuries of contact with Europeans have altered the tales. Lévi-Strauss focuses on the opposition between Wild Cat and Coyote to explore the meaning and uses of gemellarity, or twinness, in Native American culture. The concept of dual organization that these tales exemplify is one of non-equivalence: everything has an opposite or other, with which it coexists in unstable tension. In contrast, Lévi-Strauss argues, European notions of twinness—as in the myth of Castor and Pollux—stress the essential sameness of the twins. This fundamental cultural difference lay behind the fatal clash of European and Native American peoples. The Story of Lynx addresses and clarifies all the major issues that have occupied Lévi-Strauss for decades, and is the only one of his books in which he explicitly connects history and structuralism. The result is a work that will appeal to those interested in American Indian mythology.
Author : Julian H. Steward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians written by Julian H. Steward and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valérie Loichot
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452939314
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Tropics Bite Back written by Valérie Loichot and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-04-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ubiquitous presence of food and hunger in Caribbean writing—from folktales, fiction, and poetry to political and historical treatises—signals the traumas that have marked the Caribbean from the Middle Passage to the present day. The Tropics Bite Back traces the evolution of the Caribbean response to the colonial gaze (or rather the colonial mouth) from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Unlike previous scholars, Valérie Loichot does not read food simply as a cultural trope. Instead, she is interested in literary cannibalism, which she interprets in parallel with theories of relation and creolization. For Loichot, “the culinary” is an abstract mode of resistance and cultural production. The Francophone and Anglophone authors whose works she interrogates—including Patrick Chamoiseau, Suzanne Césaire, Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, Édouard Glissant, Lafcadio Hearn, and Dany Laferrière—“bite back” at the controlling images of the cannibal, the starved and starving, the cunning cook, and the sexualized octoroon with the ultimate goal of constructing humanity through structural, literal, or allegorical acts of ingesting, cooking, and eating. The Tropics Bite Back employs cross-disciplinary methods to rethink notions of race and literary influence by providing a fresh perspective on forms of consumption both metaphorical and material.
