Download or read book O kee pa written by George Catlin and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No other Indians of the American West held such a fascination for early explorers and fur traders as did the Mandans of the Upper Missouri in the years before they were decimated by a tragic plague of smallpox in 1837. And no other white man did so much to interpret primitive Mandan life and culture to the civilized world as did that pioneer American artist and amateur ethnologist of the Upper Missouri-George Catlin. Five summers before the destructive smallpox epidemic, Catlin visited the Mandans in their picturesque earth-lodge villages near the trading post of Fort Clark, at the mouth of the Knife River in present North Dakota. He painted numerous portraits of their prominent chiefs and women folk and pictured their village life, their amusements, dances, religious ceremonies, and burial ground. In his exceedingly popular two-volume work, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, published at his own expense in London in 1841, Catlin vividly described and extravagantly praised the Mandans as the most remarkable of the more than forty Indian tribes he had met in his wide travels beyond the frontiers of white settlement."-- Taken from introduction.
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tradition written by John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tradition Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations written by John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An analysis of religious belief written by John Russell Amberley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Executive Committee Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Institute written by Archaeological Institute of America and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each report.
Download or read book An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography being a Catalogue of Books written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Download or read book Becoming and Remaining a People written by Howard L. Harrod and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of religion to preserve individual and group identity is perhaps nowhere more evident than among Native American peoples. In Becoming and Remaining a People, Howard Harrod shows how the oral traditions and ritual practices of Northern Plains Indians developed, how they were transformed at critical points in their history, and how they provided them with crucial means of establishing and maintaining their respective identities. This book offers a bold new interpretation of anthropological studies, demonstrating how religious traditions and ritual processes became sources of group and individual identity for many people. Harrod reconstructs the long religious development of two village peoples, the Mandans and the Hidatsas, describing how their oral traditions enabled them to reinterpret their experiences as circumstances changed. He then shows how these and other groups on the Northern Plains remained distinct peoples in the face of increased interactions with Euro-Americans, other Indians,.and the new religion of Christianity. Harrod proposes that other interpretations of culture change may fail to come to terms with the role that religion plays in motivating both cultural conservatism and social change. For Northern Plains peoples, religion was at the heart of social identity and thus resisted change, but religion was also the source of creative reinterpretation, which produced culture change. Viewed from within the group, such change often seemed natural and was understood as an elaboration of traditions having roots in a deeper shared past. In addition to demonstrating religious continuity and change among the Mandans and the Hidatsas, he also describes instances of religious and social transformation among the peoples who became the Crows and the Cheyennes. Becoming and Remaining a People adopts a challenging analytical approach that draws on the author's creative interpretations of rituals and oral traditions. By enabling us to understand the relation of religion both to the construction of social identity and to the interpretation of social change, it reveals the richness, depth, and cultural complexity of both past Native American people and their contemporary successors.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Literature Volume 2 Prose Writing 1820 1865 written by Sacvan Bercovitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Michael D. Bell describes the social conditions of the literary vocation that shaped the growth of a professional literature in the United States. Eric Sundquist draws upon broad cultural patterns: his account of the writings of exploration, slavery, and the frontier is an interweaving of disparate voices, outlooks and traditions. Barbara L. Packer's sources come largely from intellectual history: the theological and philosophical controversies that prepared the way for transcendentalism. Jonathan Arac's categories are formalist: he sees the development of antebellum fiction as a dialectic of prose genres, the emergence of a literary mode out of the clash of national, local and personal forms. Together, these four narratives constitute a basic reassessment of American prose-writing between 1820 and 1865. It is an achievement that will remain authoritative for our time and that will set new directions for coming decades in American literary scholarship.
Download or read book Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport written by David Sansone and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-12-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1: The genesis of sport -- Part 2: The nature of Greek athletics.
Download or read book Catlin and His Contemporaries written by Brian W. Dippie and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Catlin's paintings and the vision behind them have become part of our understanding of a lost America. We see the Indian past through Catlin's eyes, imagine a younger, fresher land in his bright hues. But he spent only a few years in what he considered Indian country. The rest of his long life?more than thirty years?wasødevoted largely to promoting, repainting, and selling his collection?in short, to seeking patronage. Catlin and His Contemporaries examines how the preeminent painter of western Indians before the Civil War went about the business of making a living from his work. Catlin shared with such artists as Seth Eastman and John Mix Stanley a desire to preserve a visual record of a race seen as doomed and competed with them for federal assistance. In a young republic with little institutional and governmental support available, painters, writers, and scholars became rivals and sometimes bitter adversaries. Brian W. Dippie untangles the complex web of interrelationships between artists, government officials, members of Congress, businessmen, antiquarians and literati, kings and queens, and the Indians themselves. In this history of the politics of patronage during the nineteenth century, luminaries like Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Henry H. Sibley, John James Audubon, Alfred Jacob Miller, and Karl Bodmer are linked with Catlin in a contest for the support of the arts, setting a precedent for later generations. That the contenders "produced so much of enduring importance under such trying circumstances," Dippie observes,"was the sought-for miracle that had seemed to elude them in their lives."
Download or read book Encyclopedia Of American Indian Costume written by Josephine Paterek and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-03-05 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully produced and illustrated (bandw) reference that offers complete descriptions and cultural contexts of the dress and ornamentation of the North American Indian tribes. The volume is divided into ten cultural regions, with each chapter giving an overview of the regional clothing. Individual tribes of the area follow in alphabetical order. Tribal information includes men's basic dress, women's basic dress, footwear, outer wear, hair styles, headgear, accessories, jewelry, armor, special costumes, garment decoration, face and body embellishment, transitional dress after European contact, and bibliographic references. Appendices include a description of clothing arts and a glossary. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion Complete written by Sir James George Frazer and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1957-01-01 with total page 6687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some time I have been preparing a general work on primitive superstition and religion. Among the problems which had attracted my attention was the hitherto unexplained rule of the Arician priesthood; and last spring it happened that in the course of my reading I came across some facts which, combined with others I had noted before, suggested an explanation of the rule in question. As the explanation, if correct, promised to throw light on some obscure features of primitive religion, I resolved to develop it fully, and, detaching it from my general work, to issue it as a separate study. This book is the result. Now that the theory, which necessarily presented itself to me at first in outline, has been worked out in detail, I cannot but feel that in some places I may have pushed it too far. If this should prove to have been the case, I will readily acknowledge and retract my error as soon as it is brought home to me. Meantime my essay may serve its purpose as a first attempt to solve a difficult problem, and to bring a variety of scattered facts into some sort of order and system. A justification is perhaps needed of the length at which I have dwelt upon the popular festivals observed by European peasants in spring, at midsummer, and at harvest. It can hardly be too often repeated, since it is not yet generally recognised, that in spite of their fragmentary character the popular superstitions and customs of the peasantry are by far the fullest and most trustworthy evidence we possess as to the primitive religion of the Aryans. Indeed the primitive Aryan, in all that regards his mental fibre and texture, is not extinct. He is amongst us to this day. The great intellectual and moral forces which have revolutionised the educated world have scarcely affected the peasant. In his inmost beliefs he is what his forefathers were in the days when forest trees still grew and squirrels played on the ground where Rome and London now stand.
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Download or read book Tradition Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations written by Lord Arundell of Wardour and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Golden Bough A Study in Comparative Religion Vol 1 2 written by James George Frazer and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion' by James George Frazer, the reader is taken on a journey through the origins of religious beliefs and practices across different cultures. Frazer meticulously compares rituals, myths, and customs from various societies, delving into the similarities and differences between them. Written in a scholarly yet accessible style, the book weaves together historical accounts, anthropological studies, and folklore to present a comprehensive study of humanity's spiritual evolution. As a pioneering work in the field of comparative religion, 'The Golden Bough' offers a unique perspective on the universality of certain religious themes and symbols. This masterpiece of comparative mythology remains a crucial text for anyone interested in the intersection of culture, society, and spirituality. James George Frazer, a distinguished anthropologist and folklorist, drew on years of research and fieldwork to compile 'The Golden Bough.' His fascination with ancient rituals and beliefs led him to explore the connections between different cultures and religions. Frazer's expertise in comparative religion shines through in the meticulous analysis and insights presented in the book. For readers seeking a profound understanding of the roots of religious practices and beliefs, 'The Golden Bough' is an essential read. Frazer's meticulous research and engaging writing style make this two-volume study a timeless classic in the field of comparative religion.
Download or read book A Dictionary of American Authors written by Oscar Fay Adams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1901.
