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People of the Desert and Sea

Author : Richard Stephen Felger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534756
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book People of the Desert and Sea written by Richard Stephen Felger and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People of the Desert and Sea is one of those books that should not have to wait a generation or two to be considered a classic. A feast for the eye as well as the mind, this ethnobotany of the Seri Indians of Sonora represents the most detailed exploration of plant use by a hunting-and-gathering people to date. . . . Scholarship in the best sense of the term—precise without being pedantic, exhaustive without exhausting its readers."—Journal of Arizona History "To read and gaze through this elegantly illustrated book is to be exposed, as if through a work of science fiction, to an astonishing and unknown cultural world."—North Dakota Quarterly

The Seri Indians

Author : De Grazia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Seri Indians written by De Grazia and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Efraín of the Sonoran Desert

Author : Amalia Astorga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Efraín of the Sonoran Desert written by Amalia Astorga and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan learns the deeper meanings of ecology from Amalia Astorga, a Seri Indian.

Singing the Turtles to Sea

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520217317
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Singing the Turtles to Sea written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through stories, songs, photographs, illustrations of Comcaac arts, and discussions of Sonoran ecology, Nabhan demonstrates the irreplaceable value of this knowledge for us today.".

Empire of Sand

Author : Thomas E. Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816532896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Sand written by Thomas E. Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest days of their empire in the New World, the Spanish sought to gain control of the native peoples and lands of what is now Sonora. While missionaries were successful in pacifying many Indians, the Seris--independent groups of hunter-gatherers who lived on the desert shores and islands of the Gulf of California--steadfastly defied Spanish efforts to subjugate them. Empire of Sand is a documentary history of Spanish attempts to convert, control, and ultimately annihilate the Seris. These papers of religious, military, and government officials attest to the Seris' resilience in the face of numerous Spanish attempts to conquer them and remove them from their lands. The documents include early observations of the Seris by Jesuit missionaries, descriptions of the collapse of the Seri mission system in 1748, accounts of the invasion of Tibur n Island in 1750 and the Sonora Expedition of 1767-71, and reports of late eighteenth-century Seri hostilities. Thomas E. Sheridan's introduction puts the documents in perspective, while his notes objectively clarify their significance. By skillfully weaving the documents into a coherent narrative of Spanish-Seri interaction, he has produced a compelling account of empire and resistance that speaks to anthropologists, historians, and all readers who take heart in stories of resistance to oppression.

Unknown Island

Author : Thomas Bowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Unknown Island written by Thomas Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His own archaeological investigations try to determine whether San Esteban was in fact inhabited permanently by a distinct Seri population or was visited intermittently by Seri from neighboring islands. The author illustrates his narrative with historical and contemporary photographs and detailed maps of the Gulf of California and San Esteban Island."--Jacket.

Paths of Life

Author : Thomas E. Sheridan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816514663
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Paths of Life written by Thomas E. Sheridan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history and culture of the Native peoples of the regions on either side of the border with Mexico

Among Turtle Hunters & Basket Makers

Author : David L. Burckhalter
Publisher : Rio Nuevo Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781887896139
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Among Turtle Hunters & Basket Makers written by David L. Burckhalter and published by Rio Nuevo Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of David Burckhalter's years among the Seri Indians of northern Mexico. The Seri are known for their unique baskets, wood carvings, necklaces, and turtle hunting. David Burckhalter's photographs, in black-and-white and color, are an addition to his portrait of life among the Seri.

The Seri Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 1-344*))

Author : W J McGee
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Seri Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 1-344*)) written by W J McGee and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work W J McGee sheds light on one of the least-studied tribes of North America, The Seri Indians. This is a unique tribe in habits, customs, and language, living in Tiburon Island in Gulf of California and a small adjacent area on the mainland of Sonora (Mexico). McGee covers everything about the tribe from their habitat, history, features, language, characters, and their place in society. Excerpt from the book "The Seri men and women are of splendid physique; they have fine chests, with slender but sinewy limbs, though the hands and especially the feet are large; their heads, while small in relation to stature, approach the average in size; the hair is luxuriant and coarse, ranging from typical black to tawny in color, and is worn long. They are notably vigorous in movement, erect in carriage, and remarkable for fleetness and endurance."

Origin of the Earth and Moon

Author : Shirley Silver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816521395
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Origin of the Earth and Moon written by Shirley Silver and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.

The Seri Indians

Author : W. J. McGee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seri Indians written by W. J. McGee and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Indian Lacrosse

Author : Thomas Vennum
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801887642
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book American Indian Lacrosse written by Thomas Vennum and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innards of lacrosse balls and medicine men gazed at miniature lacrosse sticks to predict future events, where bits of bat wings were twisted into the stick's netting, and where famous players were—and are still—buried with their sticks. Here Thomas Vennum brings this world to life.

Sonora

Author : David Yetman
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826321848
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Sonora written by David Yetman and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informal account of the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, Mexico, is now available in paperback.

Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8

Author : Robert Wauchope
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477306714
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8 written by Robert Wauchope and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnology comprises the seventh and eighth volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The editor of the Ethnology volumes is Evon Z. Vogt (1918–2004), Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social Relations, Harvard University. These two books contain forty-three articles, all written by authorities in their field, on the ethnology of the Maya region, the southern Mexican highlands and adjacent regions, the central Mexican highlands, western Mexico, and northwest Mexico. Among the topics described for each group of Indians are the history of ethnological investigations, cultural and linguistic distributions, major postcontact events, population, subsistence systems and food patterns, settlement patterns, technology, economy, social organization, religion and world view, aesthetic and recreational patterns, life cycle and personality development, and annual cycle of life. The volumes are illustrated with photographs and drawings of contemporary and early historical scenes of native Indian life in Mexico and Central America. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

Indography

Author : J. Harris
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137090766
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Indography written by J. Harris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to consider the proximities and distances between various early modern discourses of the Indian. Through new analysis of English travel writing, medical treatises, literature, and drama, contributors seek not just to recover unexpected counter-histories but to put pressure on the ways in which we understand race, foreign bodies, and identity in a globalizing age that has still not shed deeply ingrained imperialist habits of marking difference.

The Record of Native People on Gulf of California Islands

Author : Thomas Bowen
Publisher : Arizona State Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Record of Native People on Gulf of California Islands written by Thomas Bowen and published by Arizona State Museum. This book was released on 2009 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last century historians and anthropologists interested in northwestern Mexico knew that Indians had inhabited four large islands in the Gulf of California. Since 1900 ethnohistorical and archaeological research has expanded knowledge of Indians on both sides of the Gulf. Much of that information pertains to the people living on the peninsula and mainland, and touches only incidentally on the islands. In this volume, Thomas Bowen presents historical and archaeological evidence for human use of 32 major Gulf islands. Native people may have played a significant role in shaping island ecosystems. Chronological data from the southern Gulf establishes a time depth for native people of ten millennia. New information from Seri oral history indicates Seri voyages far beyond Isla Tiburón, and Bowen shows the traditional assumption -- that most islands were beyond the range of native people – is wrong. Indians knew and exploited nearly every significant island in the Gulf. Bowen’s work touches on the question of initial human entry into the Americas. The Gulf may occupy a pivotal position in human dispersal in the Americas, and it is possible that evidence of this process has been preserved on some Gulf islands.

Shells on a Desert Shore

Author : Cathy Moser Marlett
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081654512X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Shells on a Desert Shore written by Cathy Moser Marlett and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mexico’s western Sonoran Desert along the Gulf of California is a place made extraordinary by the desert solitude, the dynamic sea, and the people who live there—the Seris. Central to the lives of these people are the sea and its shores. Shells on a Desert Shore describes the Seri knowledge of mollusks and includes names, folklore, history, uses, and much more. Cathy Moser Marlett’s research of several decades, conducted in the Seri language, builds on work begun in 1951 by her parents, Edward and Becky Moser. The language, spoken by fewer than a thousand people today, is considered endangered. Marlett presents what she has learned from Seri consultants over recent decades and also draws from her own childhood experiences while living in a Seri village. The information from the people who had lived as hunter-gatherers provides a window into a lifestyle no longer recalled from personal experience by most Seris today—and perhaps a window into the lives of other peoples who made the Gulf’s shores their home. The book offers a wealth of information about Seri history, as well as species accounts of more than 150 mollusks from the Seri area on the central Gulf coast. Chapters describe how the people ate mollusks or used them medicinally, how the mollusks were named, and how their shells were used. The author provides several hundred detailed drawings and photographs, many of them archival. Shells on a Desert Shore is a fresh, original presentation of a significant part of the Seri way of life. Unique because it is written from the perspective of a participant in the Seri culture, the book will stand as a definitive, irreplaceable work in ethnography, a time capsule of the Seri people and their connection to the sea.