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Author : Willard Williams Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Navaho Humor written by Willard Williams Hill and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clyde Kluckhohn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674606036
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Navaho written by Clyde Kluckhohn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors review Navaho history from archaeological times to the present, and then present Navaho life today. This book presents not only a study of Navaho life, however; it is an impartial discussion of an interesting experiment in government administration of a dependent people.
Author : Phil Proctor
Publisher : Lichtenstein Creative Media
ISBN 13 : 1888064293
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Humor written by Phil Proctor and published by Lichtenstein Creative Media. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl Kroeber
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803277823
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (778 download)
Download or read book Traditional Literatures of the American Indian written by Karl Kroeber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American Indian societies, storytelling and speech-making are invested with special significance, crafted to reveal central psychological and social values, tensions, and ambi-guities. As Karl Kroeber notes, "It is our scholarship, not Indian storytelling, that is primitive, undeveloped." ø This book is an essential introduction to the study and appreciation of American Indian oral literatures. The essays, by leading scholars, illuminate the subtle artistry of form and content that gives spoken stories and myths an enduring vitality in native communities yet often makes them perplexing to outsiders. The presentation and analysis of complete oral texts, often without translations, enable the reader to grasp the meaning, purpose, and structure of the tales and to become familiar with the techniques scholars use to translate and interpret them. ø This expanded edition of the widely praised collection contains a recent analysis of the Wintu myth of female sexuality, a revised introduction by Karl Kroeber, a contribution by Dell Hymes, a new translation by Dennis Tedlock, and a new, annotated bibliography.
Author : Gladys Amanda Reichard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400859093
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Navaho Religion written by Gladys Amanda Reichard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward their place in the universe, their obligation toward humankind and their gods, and their conception of the supernatural, as well as how the Navaho achieve a harmony within their world through symbolic ceremonial practice. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Jon Roeckelein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313011265
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Psychology of Humor written by Jon Roeckelein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work traces the origins and evolution of the concept of humor in psychology from ancient to modern times with an emphasis on an experimental/empirical approach to the understanding of humor and sense of humor. In addition to more than 3,000 important citations and references pertaining to the history, theories, and definitions of the concept of humor, this reference guide contains more than 380 recent (post-1970) annotated entries on the psychology of humor in its bibliographic section. The book describes various psychological, nonpsychological, and philosophical theories and definitions of humor, and focuses on the methodological concerns of psychologists regarding the scientific investigation of humor. The bibliography is organized under 10 categories, including Bibliographies and Literature Reviews of Humor, Cognition and Humor, Methodology and Measurement of Humor, and Social Aspects of Humor.
Author : Kenneth Lincoln
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361652
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Indi'n Humor written by Kenneth Lincoln and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges "wooden Indian" stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native American peoples. Moving from tribal culture to interethnic literature, Lincoln covers the traditional Trickster of origin myths, historical ironies, Euroamericans "playing Indian," feminist Indian humor at home, contemporary painters and playwrights reinventing Coyote, popular mixed-blood music and Red English, and three Native American novelists, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and N. Scott Momaday. Indi'n Humor documents and interprets the contexts of laughter among Native Americans, as they see and are seen by the rest of the world. The study comes to focus comically on the poets, visual artists, playwrights, and novelists who make up the cultural renaissance of the past twenty years.
Author : Paul G. Zolbrod
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826325033
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Diné Bahane' written by Paul G. Zolbrod and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1987-12-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition. Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage.
Author : Victoria Lindsay Levine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442242086
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
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.”
Author : Katherine Spencer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477306404
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Mythology and Values written by Katherine Spencer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Katherine Spencer examines Navaho cultural values by studying a specific subset of Navaho mythology: chantway myths, part of ceremonies performed to cure illness. She begins with a summary of the general plot construction of chantway myths and the value themes presented in these plots, then discusses “explanatory elements” inserted by the narrators of the myths. She continues with a deeper analysis of the cultural value judgements conveyed by these myths. At the end of the book, Spencer includes abstracts of the myths she discusses.
Author : Flora L. Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Some Sex Beliefs and Practices in a Navaho Community written by Flora L. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512803154
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Speech Play written by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From riddles to proverbs, from jingles to jokes, from mnemonics to pig Latin to dueling with words, speech play is central to social life in all of its forms. These essays describe a variety of speech play genres, formulate the "rules" for play with language, and discuss the relevance of speech play to current issues in linguistic theory, cognitive development, and the ethnography of speaking.
Author : Wallace L. Chafe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027241528
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Not Being Earnest written by Wallace L. Chafe and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be counterproductive. Laughter is viewed as an expression of this feeling, and humor as a set of devices designed to trigger it because it is so pleasant and distracting.
Author : Nancy Mattina
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806165650
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Uncommon Anthropologist written by Nancy Mattina and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard (1893–1955) is one of America’s least-appreciated anthropologists. Her accomplishments were obscured in her lifetime by differences in intellectual approach and envy, as well as academic politics and the gender realities of her age. This biography offers the first full account of Reichard’s life, her milieu, and, most important, her work—establishing, once and for all, her lasting significance in the history of anthropology. In her thirty-two years as the founder and head of Barnard College’s groundbreaking anthropology department, Reichard taught that Native languages, written or unwritten, sacred or profane, offered Euro-Americans the least distorted views onto the inner life of North America’s first peoples. This unique approach put her at odds with anthropologists such as Edward Sapir, leader of the structuralist movement in American linguistics. Similarly, Reichard’s focus on Native psychology as revealed to her by Native artists and storytellers produced a dramatically different style of ethnography from that of Margaret Mead, who relied on western psychological archetypes to “crack” alien cultural codes, often at a distance. Despite intense pressure from her peers to conform to their theories, Reichard held firm to her humanitarian principles and methods; the result, as Nancy Mattina makes clear, was pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language—amplified by an exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring. Drawing on Reichard’s own writings and correspondence, this book provides an intimate picture of her small-town upbringing, the professional challenges she faced in male-centered institutions, and her quietly revolutionary contributions to anthropology. Gladys Reichard emerges as she lived and worked—a far-sighted, self-reliant humanist sustained in turbulent times by the generous, egalitarian spirit that called her yearly to the far corners of the American West.
Author : Suzanne J. Kessler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226432068
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Gender written by Suzanne J. Kessler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-06-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See:
Author : Raymond Friday Locke
Publisher : Holloway House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780876875001
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Navajo written by Raymond Friday Locke and published by Holloway House Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Ben-Amos
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292735103
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Folklore Genres written by Dan Ben-Amos and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Folklore Genres represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions. The study as a whole is concerned with the concept of genre and with the history of genre theory. A selective bibliography provides a guide to analytical and theoretical works on the topic. The literary-oriented articles conceive of folklore forms, not as the antecedents of literary genres, but as complex, symbolically rich expressions. The ethnographically oriented articles, as well as those dealing with classification problems, reveal dimensions of folklore that are often obscured from the student reading the folklore text alone. It has long been known that the written page is but a pale reproduction of the spoken word, that a tale hardly reflects the telling. The essays in this collection lead to an understanding of the forms of oral literature as multidimensional symbols of communication and to an understanding of folklore genres as systematically related conceptual categories in culture. What kinship terms are to social structure, genre terms are to folklore. Since genres constitute recognized modes of folklore speaking, their terminology and taxonomy can play a major role in the study of culture and society. The essays were originally published in Genre (1969–1971); introduction, bibliography, and index have been added to this edition.
