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Book The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion

Download or read book The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion written by Gottfried Wilhelm Locher and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1932 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion

Download or read book The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion written by Gottfried Wilhelm Locher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1932 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Symbolic Anthropology in the Netherlands

Download or read book Symbolic Anthropology in the Netherlands written by P.E. de Josselin de Jong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leiden Oriental Connections

Download or read book Leiden Oriental Connections written by W. Otterspeer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1989 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For review see: J. van Goor, in: Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, jrg. 110, afl. 1 (1995); p. 137-140.

Book Theory and Practice

Download or read book Theory and Practice written by Stanley Diamond and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Good And Evil Serpent

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  • Author : James H. Charlesworth
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300142730
  • Pages : 742 pages

Download or read book The Good And Evil Serpent written by James H. Charlesworth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The serpent of ancient times was more often associated with positive attributes like healing and eternal life than it was with negative meanings. This groundbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbol of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the creativity of the biblical authors' use of symbols and argues that we must today reexamine our own archetypal conceptions with comparable creativity.--From publisher description.

Book Writing the Hamat sa

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.

Book Race  Language and Culture

Download or read book Race Language and Culture written by Franz Boas and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Race, Language and Culture" by Franz Boas. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Envisioning Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric R. Wolf
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1999-01-11
  • ISBN : 9780520215825
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Envisioning Power written by Eric R. Wolf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-01-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the historical relationship of ideas, power and culture. Looking at several case studies, it analyses how the regnant ideology intertwines with power around the pivotal relationships that govern social labour.

Book Ngaju Religion

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  • Author : Hans Schärer
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-03-09
  • ISBN : 9401193460
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Ngaju Religion written by Hans Schärer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Scharer was born at Wadenswil (near Zurich), Switzerland, in 1904. After his school years, he was trained for (Protestant) mis sionary work at the Missionshaus in BiHe. For seven years, 1932-1939, he lived among the Ngaju in southern Borneo; first with the Ngaju speaking people of the Katingan river area, later, for a shorter period. with those living along the Barito. He was granted European leave in 1939, and spent the years 1939-1944 studying Ethnology (as it then was called) under Professor J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong at Leiden University. He went home to Switzerland in 1944, but returned to Leiden in 1946 to complete his studies and defend his Ph. D. thesis on Die Gottesidee der N gadju Dajak in Sud-Borneo. It is this thesis which. published by E.J. Brill, Leiden, in 1946, is now being re-issued in English translation. Soon after, he left once more for the Ngaju territory, as Praeses of the Baseler Mission in south Borneo. He died there suddenly on December 10th, 1947, of blood-poisoning. These few biographical data are not merely of some slight historical interest: they help us to understand the man and his work. The present book is Scharer's only major work to have been published, and for Scharer himself it was, in a way, an experiment.

Book The Religions of the American Indians

Download or read book The Religions of the American Indians written by Åke Hultkrantz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the religions of American Indians covers tribal religions and religions of the American high culture.

Book The Papuas of Waropen

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  • Author : Prof. Dr. G. J. Held
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-12-19
  • ISBN : 9401759286
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book The Papuas of Waropen written by Prof. Dr. G. J. Held and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Et Architecture Au Canada

Download or read book Art Et Architecture Au Canada written by Loren Ruth Lerner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

Book A Wealth of Thought

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  • Author : Franz Boas
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2015-09-14
  • ISBN : 0295998601
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book A Wealth of Thought written by Franz Boas and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also recognized for breaking new ground in the study of so-called primitive art. His writings on art have major historical value because they embody a profound change in art history. Nineteenth-century scholars assumed that all art lay on a continuum from primitive to advanced: artworks of all nonliterate peoples were therefore examples of early stages of development. But Boas’s case studies from his own fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest demonstrated different tenets: the variety of history, the influence of diffusion, the symbolic and stylistic variation in art styles found among groups and sometimes within one group, and the role of imagination and creativity on the part of the artist. This volume presents Boas’s most significant writings on art (dated 1889-1916), many originally published in obscure sources now difficult to locate. The original illustrations and an extensive, combined bibliography are included. Aldona Jonaitis’s careful compilation of articles and the thorough historical and theoretical framework in which she casts them in her introductory and concluding essays make this volume a valuable reference for students of art history and Northwest anthropology, and a special delight for admirers of Boas.

Book Religious Texts of the Oral Tradition from Western New Guinea  Irian Jaya

Download or read book Religious Texts of the Oral Tradition from Western New Guinea Irian Jaya written by Kamma and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sky Loom

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  • Author : Brian Swann
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2014-11-01
  • ISBN : 0803246153
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book Sky Loom written by Brian Swann and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sky Loom offers a dazzling introduction to Native American myths, stories, and songs drawn from previous collections by acclaimed translator and poet Brian Swann. With a general introduction by Swann, Sky Loom is a stunning collection that provides a glimpse into the intricacies and beauties of story and myth, placing them in their cultural, historical, and linguistic contexts. Each of the twenty-six selections is translated and introduced by a well-known expert on Native oral literatures and offers entry into the cultures and traditions of several different tribes and bands, including the Yupiit and the Tlingits of the polar North; the Coast Salish and the Kwakwaka’wakw of the Pacific Northwest; the Navajos, the Pimas, and the Yaquis of the Southwest; the Lakota Sioux and the Plains Crees of the Great Plains; the Ojibwes of the Great Lakes; the Naskapis and the Eastern Crees of the Hudson Bay area in Canada; and the Munsees of the Northeast. Sky Loom takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through literary traditions older than the “discovery” of the New World.

Book Catalogue  Subjects

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 554 pages

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: