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Author : Franz Boas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)
Download or read book The Religion of the Kwakiutl Indians written by Franz Boas and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilhelm Dupré
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110870053
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Religion in Primitive Cultures written by Wilhelm Dupré and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Author : Robert Bringhurst
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1553658396
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)
Download or read book A Story as Sharp as a Knife written by Robert Bringhurst and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal collection of Haida myths and legends; now in a gorgeous new package. The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. Together they created a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form. Having worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, linguist and poet Robert Bringhurst brings both rigorous scholarship and a literary voice to the English translation of John Swanton's careful work. He sets the stories in a rich context that reaches out to dozens of native oral literatures and to myth-telling traditions around the globe. Attractively redesigned, this collection of First Nations oral literature is an important cultural record for future generations of Haida, scholars and other interested readers. It won the Edward Sapir Prize, awarded by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, and it was chosen as the Literary Editor's Book of the Year by the Times of London. Bringhurst brings these works to life in the English language and sets them in a context just as rich as the stories themselves one that reaches out to dozens of Native American oral literatures, and to mythtelling traditions around the world.
Author : Pierre Maranda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110828049
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Soviet Structural Folkloristics. Vol. 1 written by Pierre Maranda and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martine J. Reid
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774845287
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Paddling to Where I Stand written by Martine J. Reid and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kwakwakawakw people and their culture have been the subject of more anthropological writings than any other ethnic group on the Northwest Coast. Until now, however, no biography had been written by or about a Kwakwakawakw woman. Paddling to Where I Stand presents the memoirs of Agnes Alfred (c.1890-1992), a non-literate noble Qwiqwasutinuxw woman of the Kwakwakawakw Nation and one of the last great storytellers among her peers in the classic oral tradition. Agnes Alfred documents through myths, historical accounts, and personal reminiscences the foundations and the enduring pulse of her living culture. She shows how a First Nations woman managed to quietly fulfill her role as a noble matriarch in her ever-changing society, thus providing a role model for those who came after her. She also contributes significant light and understanding to several traditional practices including prearranged marriages and traditional potlatches. Paddling to Where I Stand is more than another anthropological interpretation of Kwakwaka’wakw culture. It is the first-hand account, by a woman, of the greatest period of change she and her people experienced since first contact with Europeans, and her memoirs flow from her urgently felt desire to pass on her knowledge to younger generations.
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Total Pages : 808 pages
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Download or read book Handbook of North American Indians: Suttles, Wayne. Northwest Coast written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520232437
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Imagining Karma written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-11-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 'Imagining Karma', Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. The book makes a case for disciplined comparison, a humane view of human nature, and a theoretical understanding of 'family resemblances' and differences across great cultural divides.
Author : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Catalogue: Subjects written by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Books in Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 2410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Meuli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134434650
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Shadow House written by Jonathan Meuli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study of Northwest Coast art, Jonathan Meuli has not only outlined a history of ideas associated with Northwest Coast art objects from pre-Contact time to the present day, but has also examined the ways in which the physical location and contexts in which the objects are produced has helped to determine their meanings. Locating his linear historical narrative within a wider exploration of ethnographic art ideas, which emphasizes links across cultures, Meuli examines the differing attitudes towards Northwest Coast material culture, particularly as these are embodied in oral mythic narratives, collection methods and architectural constructions.
Author : Newberry Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Edward E. Ayer Collection of Americana and American Indians in the Newberry Library written by Newberry Library and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron Glass
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774863803
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Writing the Hamat'sa written by Aaron Glass and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long known as the Cannibal Dance, the Hamat̓sa is among the most important hereditary prerogatives of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ꞌwakw of British Columbia. In the late nineteenth century, as anthropologists arrived to document the practice, colonial agents were pursuing its eradication and Kwakwa̱ka̱ꞌwakw were adapting it to endure. In the process, the dance – with dramatic choreography, magnificent bird masks, and an aura of cannibalism – entered a vast library of ethnographic texts. Writing the Hamat̓sa offers a critical survey of attempts to record, describe, and interpret the dance over four centuries. Going beyond postcolonial critiques of representation that often ignore Indigenous agency in the ethnographic encounter, Writing the Hamat̓sa focuses on forms of textual mediation and Indigenous response that helped transofrm the ceremony from a set of specific performances into a generalized cultural icon. This meticulous work illuminates how Indigenous people contribute to, contest, and repurpose texts in the process of fashioning modern identities under settler colonialism.
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120826090
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Karma and Rebirth written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small scale indigenous societies of West Africa, Melanesia, and North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritiative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth.
Author : George A. Corbin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973055
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Native Arts Of North America, Africa, And The South Pacific written by George A. Corbin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the art of tribal peoples of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific does not briefly cover the hundreds of artistic traditions in these three vast areas but rather studies in depth thirty-six art styles within all three areas using the methods of art history, including stylistic analysis and iconographic interpretation. Emphasis is on the art in cultural context and as a system of visual communication within each tribal area. Where appropriate for a more complete understanding of the art, data from archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, religion, and other humanistic disciplines are included.Among the peoples and cultures whose art is studied are the Haida, Kwakiutl, and Tlingit; the Hohokam and Mongollon, the Anasazi and Hopi; the Dogon and Bamana of Mali; the Asante of Ghana; the Benin, Yoruba, and Ibo of Nigeria; the Fan, the Bamum, and the Kuba of Central Africa; Australian aboriginal and Island New Guinea art; Island Melanesia art; central and eastern Polynesia; Hawaii and the Maori in Marginal Polynesia.The format of the text and selected illustrations is based on seventeen years of teaching African, North American Indian, and South Pacific art to undergraduate and graduate students at Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY), New York University, and Columbia University. The book is intended for art history and anthropology students and the interested lay reader or collector. The detailed notes at the end of the book are for further study, research, and understanding of the tribal art style under discussion.
Author : Franz Boas
Publisher : New York : AMS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Religion of the Kwakiutl Indians written by Franz Boas and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 1310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D.C. Watts
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080546021
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Plant Lore written by D.C. Watts and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man" due to an old superstitious belief that if the poppy were put to the eyes it would cause blindness. Many plant names derived from superstition, folk lore, or primal beliefs. Other names are purely descriptive and can serve to explain the meaning of the botanical name. For example, Beauty-Berry is the name given to the American shrub that belongs to the genus Callicarpa. Callicarpa is Greek for beautiful fruit. Still other names come from literary sources providing rich detail of the transmission of words through the ages.Conceived as part of the author's wider interest in plant and tree lore and ethnobotanical studies, this fully revised edition of Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Origins contains over 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants. Wild and cultivated plants alike are identified by the botanical name. Further detail provides a brief account of the meaning of the name and detailed commentary on common usage.* Includes color images * Inclusive of all Latin terms with vernacular derivatives * The most comprehensive guide for plant scientists, linguists, botanists, and historians
