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Book Contributions to Alsea Ethnography

Download or read book Contributions to Alsea Ethnography written by Philip Drucker and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes  Tobacco and other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas

Download or read book Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes Tobacco and other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas written by Elizabeth Anne Bollwerk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the most recent archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts of South America. By broadening research questions, utilizing new analytical methods, and applying interdisciplinary interpretative frameworks, this volume offers new insights into a diverse array of perspectives on smoke plants and pipes.

Book Coyote Was Going There

Download or read book Coyote Was Going There written by Jarold Ramsey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas.

Book Atlas of World Cultures

Download or read book Atlas of World Cultures written by George Peter Murdock and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1981-05-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas in 1967 marked the first time that descriptive information on the peoples of the world—primitive, historical, and contemporary—had been systematically organized for the purposes of comparative research. In this volume, Murdock has completely revised this work, selecting 563 societies that are most fully and accurately described in ethnographic literature. The identification of each society gives its geographical coordinates and date, its identifying number in the Ethnographic Atlas, and an indication of whether it is included in the Human Relations Area Files or the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. In addition, bibliographical references are offered for each society. The information and suggested research techniques will be of value to comparativists in anthropology, history, political science, psychology and sociology. Most importantly, it offers a simple method fro choosing a valid sample of the world's known societies for cross-cultural research.

Book Catalogue University of California Press Publications 1893 1943

Download or read book Catalogue University of California Press Publications 1893 1943 written by California. University. Press and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1944 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report with Respect to the House Resolution Authorizing the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to Conduct an Investigation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Download or read book Report with Respect to the House Resolution Authorizing the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to Conduct an Investigation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Constructing Frames of Reference

Download or read book Constructing Frames of Reference written by Lewis R. Binford and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions to the "New Archaeology" changed the course of the field, as he argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological record. This book, the culmination of Binford's intellectual legacy thus far, presents a detailed description of his methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a global basis. This landmark publication will be an important step in understanding the great process of cultural evolution and will change the way archaeology proceeds as a scientific enterprise. This work provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of cultural and environmental information and offers many original insights into the past. Binford helped pioneer what is now called "ethnoarchaeology"—the study of living societies to help explain cultural patterns in the archaeological record—and this book is grounded on a detailed analysis of ethnographic data from about 340 historically known hunter-gatherer populations. The methodological framework based on this data will reshape the paradigms through which we understand human culture for years to come.

Book Catalogue

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  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Book Human Families

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  • Author : Stevan Harrell
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-02-23
  • ISBN : 0429968523
  • Pages : 624 pages

Download or read book Human Families written by Stevan Harrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed study maps variations in family systems throughout the world, focusing on the ways families cooperate and interact with their societies. Harrell describes families in nomadic bands, traditional African societies, Polynesian and Micronesian societies, native societies of the Pacific Northwest coast, preindustrial class societies, and modern industrial societies. His extensive case studies are clearly illustrated with unique diagrams that allow comparison of complex groups and family processes extending over a generation. }This detailed study maps the variations in family systems throughout the world, focusing on the ways families interact with their societies. Tracing the developmental cycle of families in a wide range of times and places, Stevan Harrell shows how family members in different societies must cooperate to perform various activities and thus organize themselves in particular ways. Within six major divisions, the book describes families in nomadic bands, traditional African societies, Polynesian and Micronesian societies, native societies of the Pacific Northwest coast, preindustrial class societies, and modern industrial societies. Within each group, the authors copious examples demonstrate the variation from one family system to another. His case studies are clearly illustrated with a unique set of diagrams that allow comparison of complex groups and of family processes extending over a generation. Scholars and advanced students alike will find this ambitious book an invaluable resource. }

Book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes

Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editorial: Changes in NARN Stories Oregonians Tell About Coyotes--Folklore or Natural History - Roberta L. Hall and Alison T. Otis Oregon Coast Prehistory: A Brief Review of Archaeological Investigations on the Oregon Coast - John A. Draper Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 34th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference Clay Tobacco Pipes from Spokane House and Fort Colville - Michael A. Pfeiffer Settlement and Subsistence in the Willamette Valley: A Reply to Towle - John R. White Bibliography of Idaho Archaeology: 1977-1979 - Max G. Pavesic, Mark G. Plew, and Roderick Sprague

Book Prehistory of the Oregon Coast

Download or read book Prehistory of the Oregon Coast written by R Lee Lyman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first synthesis of the prehistory of the coast of Oregon. It analyzes the artifacts and mammalian faunal remains of three representative sites on the coast. A model of the evolution of cultural adaptational strategies is presented and tested, from which it creates a model of coastal cultural development. On a methodological level, the volume examines the overriding importance and effects of various sampling techniques.

Book Beaten Down

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  • Author : David Peterson del Mar
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780295985053
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Beaten Down written by David Peterson del Mar and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines interpersonal violence in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia beginning with Native American cultures before colonization and continuing into the mid-twentieth centuries. Rather than riots or lynchings, it is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical force--a husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to establish who was the “better man.” Del Mar accounts for the social relations of power that lie behind this intimate form of violence.

Book Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology

Download or read book Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Divination and Healing

Download or read book Divination and Healing written by Michael Winkelman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divination is an important feature of cultures all over the world. While some may still question the efficacy of divination systems, they continue to serve their communities by diagnosing ailments, prescribing healing treatments, and solving problems. Yet despite their universality, there are relatively few comprehensive studies of divination systems. This volume seeks to fill this gap regarding the use of divination in healing. Here some of the world’s leading authorities draw on their own fieldwork and participation in ritual to present detailed case studies, demonstrating that divination rituals can have therapeutic effects. As the contributors examine the systems of knowledge that divination articulates and survey the varieties of divinatory experience, they seek to analyze divination as an epistemological system, as a social process, and as a therapeutic endeavor. While some of their findings reinforce traditional assumptions about the importance of social control, spirit relations, and community support in the divination process, the authors place these considerations within new epistemological frameworks that emphasize the use of alternative modes of knowing. In this wide-ranging volume, readers will find coverage of classic Ifa systems; Buddhist-influenced shamanic practices in the former Soviet Union; the reconciliation of Muslim beliefs and divinatory practices in Thailand; Native American divination used in diagnosis; Maya calendrical divination in Guatemala; mediumistic and chicken oracle divination among the Sukuma of Tanzania; Ndembu divination, focusing on the process of collective healing; and divination among the Samburu (Maasai) of Kenya, featuring dialogues from actual healing sessions. Together, these contributions argue for new perspectives on the study of divination that emphasize not only the epistemological roots of these systems but also their multifaceted therapeutic functions. Divination and Healing is a rich source of both data and insight for scholars of ritual, religion, medical anthropology, and the psychology of altered states of consciousness.