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Author : Rafael Karsten
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The Toba Indians of the Bolivian Gran Chaco written by Rafael Karsten and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Schofield Saeger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550700
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Chaco Mission Frontier written by James Schofield Saeger and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish missions in the New World usually pacified sedentary peoples accustomed to the agricultural mode of mission life, prompting many scholars to generalize about mission history. James Saeger now reconsiders the effectiveness of the missions by examining how Guaycuruan peoples of South America's Gran Chaco adapted to them during the eighteenth century. Because the Guaycuruans were hunter-gatherers less suited to an agricultural lifestyle, their attitudes and behaviors can provide new insight about the impact of missions on native peoples. Responding to recent syntheses of the mission system, Saeger proposes that missions in the Gran Chaco did not fit the usual pattern. Through research in colonial documents, he reveals the Guaycuruan perspective on the missions, thereby presenting an alternative view of Guaycuruan history and the development of the mission system. He investigates Guaycuruan social, economic, political, and religious life before the missions and analyzes subsequent changes; he then traces Guaycuruan history into the modern era and offers an assessment of what Catholic missions meant to these peoples. Saeger's research into Spanish documents is unique for its elicitation of the Indian point of view. He not only reconstructs Guaycuruan life independent of Spanish contact but also shows how these Indians negotiated the conditions under which they would adapt to the mission way of life, thereby retaining much of their independence. By showing that the Guaycuruans were not as restricted in missions as has been assumed, Saeger demonstrates that there is a distinct difference between the establishment of missions and conquest. The Chaco Mission Frontier helps redefine mission studies by correcting overgeneralization about their role in Latin America.
Author : Elmer Miller
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Peoples of the Gran Chaco written by Elmer Miller and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gran Chaco region of South America constitutes a cultural area that is little known and largely misunderstood by the majority of people living outside its borders. From the earliest period of European contact, the societies under consideration here defended their territory and resisted first colonial and later national policies of domination and assimilation. The unique forms such resistance took constitute the subject of this book. Contrary to common assumptions, the hunter-gatherer values forged out of a unique environment have shown remarkable resilience throughout the centuries. It is the variety and relentless nature of cultural resistance that is documented in the various chapters presented here. The points of view expressed are those of scholars trained in a variety of academic settings (England, Sweden, U.S., Argentina) each with its unique perspective and frame of reference. Four of the seven writers are Argentine, three of whom have received training and experience in the U.S. Yet, it is the individual voices of indigenous people themselves that tell the story of contemporary life as experienced in the various societies concerned. They tell about the conditions that shape their lives and engender resistance to full assimilation into the white man's world. These are the voices of the future.
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Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Folk Literature of the Toba Indians written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elmer S. Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Critically Annotated Bibliography of the Gran Chaco Toba written by Elmer S. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 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 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold H. Key
Publisher : Norman : Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bolivian Indian Tribes written by Harold H. Key and published by Norman : Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma. This book was released on 1967 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rafael Karsten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136217525
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The Civilization of the South Indian Americans written by Rafael Karsten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2007. Deemed as an important contribution to the study of certain aspects of South American native civilisation, collated over five years, and includes personal observations as well as literature relating to the customs and beliefs of the native Indians in this vast area.
Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 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 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780819601674
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion written by James George Frazer and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1966 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes works first published during the period 1933-36. Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941) is famous as the author of "The Golden Bough."
Author : Malena Kuss
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292788404
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History written by Malena Kuss and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in English until this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups that met and mixed in the New World. Within a history marked by cultural encounters and dislocations, music emerges as the powerful tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs belief, and challenges received aesthetics. This work, more than two decades in the making, was conceived as part of "The Universe of Music: A History" project, initiated by and developed in cooperation with the International Music Council, with the goals of empowering Latin Americans and Caribbeans to shape their own musical history and emphasizing the role that music plays in human life. The four volumes that constitute this work are structured as parts of a single conception and gather 150 contributions by more than 100 distinguished scholars representing 36 countries. Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico, focuses on the inextricable relationships between worldviews and musical experience in the current practices of indigenous groups. Worldviews are built into, among other things, how music is organized and performed, how musical instruments are constructed and when they are played, choreographic formations, the structure of songs, the assignment of gender to instruments, and ritual patterns. Two CDs with 44 recorded examples illustrate the contributions to this rich volume.
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Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book American Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians: Physical anthropology, linguistics and cultural geography of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas J. Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136605142
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Icons of Power written by Nicholas J. Saunders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icons of Power investigates why the image of the cat has been such a potent symbol in the art, religion and mythology of indigenous American cultures for three thousand years. The jaguar and the puma epitomize ideas of sacrifice, cannibalism, war, and status in a startling array of graphic and enduring images. Natural and supernatural felines inhabit a shape-shifting world of sorcery and spiritual power, revealing the shamanic nature of Amerindian world views. This pioneering collection offers a unique pan-American assessment of the feline icon through the diversity of cultural interpretations, but also striking parallels in its associations with hunters, warriors, kingship, fertility, and the sacred nature of political power. Evidence is drawn from the pre-Columbian Aztec and Maya of Mexico, Peruvian, and Panamanian civilizations, through recent pueblo and Iroquois cultures of North America, to current Amazonian and Andean societies. This well-illustrated volume is essential reading for all who are interested in the symbolic construction of animal icons, their variable meanings, and their place in a natural world conceived through the lens of culture. The cross-disciplinary approach embraces archaeology, anthropology, and art history.
Author : 作者：（英）詹姆斯·乔治·弗雷泽
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book 火起源的神话 written by 作者：（英）詹姆斯·乔治·弗雷泽 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书讨论了世界各地的火的起源神话，几乎涵盖了所有大洲，其中对澳洲、北美等土著部落的神话记载尤为详细。
Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226474809
Total Pages : 284 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 1988-04-15 with total page 284 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 : Deborah Poole
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119183030
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Latin American Anthropology written by Deborah Poole and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of 24 newly commissioned chapters, this defining reference volume on Latin America introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the study of this diverse region. Contributors include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil, and is also topically focused on new research Draws on original ethnographic and archival research Highlights national and regional debates Provides a vivid sense of how anthropologists often combine intellectual and political work to address the pressing social and cultural issues of Latin America
