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Book Ibero Americana

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Ortwin Sauer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1943
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 570 pages

Download or read book Ibero Americana written by Carl Ortwin Sauer and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Comparative Ethnology of Northern Mexico Before 1750

Download or read book The Comparative Ethnology of Northern Mexico Before 1750 written by Ralph Leon Beals and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas written by Bruce G. Trigger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.

Book The Jesuit Missions of Northern Mexico

Download or read book The Jesuit Missions of Northern Mexico written by Charles W. Polzer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Languages of Native America

Download or read book The Languages of Native America written by Lyle Campbell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. The contents are as follows: Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, "Introduction: North American Indian Historical Linguistics in Current Perspective" Ives Goddard, "Comparative Algonquian" Marianne Mithun, "Iroquoian" Wallace L. Chafe, "Caddoan" David S. Rood, "Siouan" Mary R. Haas, "Southeastern Languages" James M. Crawford, "Timucua and Yuchi: Two Language Isolates of the Southeast" Ives Goddard, "The Languages of South Texas and the Lower Rio Grande" Irvine Davis, "The Kiowa-Tanoan, Keresan, and Zuni Languages" Susan Steele, "Uto-Aztecan: An Assessment for Historical and Comparative Linguistics" William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Hokan lnter-Branch Comparisons" Margaret Langdon, "Some Thoughts on Hokan with Particular Reference to Pomoan and Yuman" Michael Silverstein, ''Penutian: An Assessment" Laurence C. Thompson, "Salishan and the Northwest" William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Wakashan Comparative Studies" William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Chimakuan Comparative Studies" Michael E. Krauss, "Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut" Lyle CampbelI, "Middle American Languages" Eric S. Hamp, "A Glance from Now On."

Book Dangerous Harvest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael K. Steinberg
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2004-04-01
  • ISBN : 0190286628
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Dangerous Harvest written by Michael K. Steinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global drug trade and its associated violence, corruption, and human suffering create global problems that include political and military conflicts, ethnic minority human rights violations, and stresses on economic development. Drug production and eradication affects the stability of many states, shaping and sometimes distorting their foreign policies. External demand for drugs has transformed many indigenous cultures from using local agricultural activity to being enmeshed in complex global problems. Dangerous Harvest presents a global overview of indigenous peoples' relations with drugs. It presents case studies from various cultural landscapes that are involved in drug plant production, trade, and use, and examines historical uses of illicit plant substances. It continues with coverage of eradication efforts, and the environmental impact of drug plant production. In its final chapter, it synthesizes the major points made and forecasts future directions of crop substitution programs, international eradication efforts, and changes in indigenous landscapes. The book helps unveil the farmer, not to glamorize those who grow drug plants but to show the deep historical, cultural, and economic ties between farmer and crop.

Book Rudo Ensayo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juan Nentvig
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2022-09-20
  • ISBN : 0816550689
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Rudo Ensayo written by Juan Nentvig and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the Rudo Ensayo is more an historic document than a mere history, so this new translation of it is more a documented interpretation than simply a new translation. The translator/editors bring their expert knowledge of the area, the language, and the history to every page of Nentvig's manuscript. Pradeau and Rasmussen have clarified many of the ambiguities of earlier translations by Smith (1863) and Guiteras (1894), and have added substantial annotations to the author's accounts of fauna and flora, native culture, and Spanish outposts. An incomparable record of a twelve-year mission in 18th century Sonora, the Rudo Ensayo as rendered in modern English is also a fascinating travelogue through an untamed land.

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 Handbook of South American Indians

Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of South American Indians  The circum Caribbean tribes

Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians The circum Caribbean tribes written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legends of the American Desert

Download or read book Legends of the American Desert written by Alex Shoumatoff and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For his brilliant reportage ranging from the forested recesses of the Amazon to the manicured lawns of Westchester County, New York, Alex Shoumatoff has won acclaim as one of our most perceptive guides to the oddest corners of the earth. Now, with this book, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey into the most complex and myth-laden region of the American landscape and imagination. In this amazing narrative, Shoumatoff records his quest to capture the vast multiplicity of the American Southwest. Beginning with his first trip after college across the desert in a station wagon, some twenty-five years ago, he surveys the boundless variety of people and experiences constituting the place--the idea--that has become America's symbol and last redoubt of the "Other. From the Biosphere to the Mormons, from the deadly world of narcotraffickers to the secret lives of the covertly Jewish conversos, Shoumatoff explores the many alternative states of being who have staked their claim in the Southwest, making it a haven for every brand of refugee, fugitive, and utopian. And as he ventures across time and space, blending many genres--history, anthropology, natural science, to name only a few--he brings us a wealth of information on chile addiction, the diffusion of horses, the formation of the deserts and mountain ranges, the struggles of the Navajo to preserve their culture, and countless other aspects of this place we think we know. Full of profound sympathy and unique insights, Legends of the American Desert is a superbly rich epic of fact and reflection destined to take its place among such classics of regional portraiture as Ian Frazier's Great Plains. Alex Shoumatoff has created an exuberant celebration of a singularly American reality.

Book The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva

Download or read book The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva written by Richard Flint and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva is an engaging record of key research by archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, and geographers concerning the first organized European entrance into what is now the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico. In search of where the expedition went and what peoples it encountered, this volume explores the fertile valleys of Sonora, the basins and ranges of southern Arizona, the Zuni pueblos and the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, and the Llano Estacado of the Texas panhandle. The twenty-one contributors to the volume have pursued some of the most significant lines of research in the field in the last fifty years; their techniques range from documentary analysis and recording traditional stories to detailed examination of the landscape and excavation of campsites and Indian towns. With more confidence than ever before, researchers are closing in on the route of the conquistadors.

Book The Indians of the Southeastern United States

Download or read book The Indians of the Southeastern United States written by John Reed Swanton and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plains Indian History and Culture

Download or read book Plains Indian History and Culture written by John Canfield Ewers and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plains Indian History and Culture, an engaging collection of articles and essays, reflects John C. Ewers multifaceted approach to Indian history, an approach that combines his far-reaching interest in American history generally, his professional training in anthropology, and his many decades of experience as a field-worker and museum curator. The author has drawn on interviews collected during a quarter-century of fieldwork with Indian elders, who in recalling their own experiences during the buffalo days, revealed unique insights into Plains Indian life. Ewers use his expertise in examining Indian-made artifacts and drawings as well as photographs taken by non-Indian artists who had firsthand contact with Indians. He throws new light on important changes in Plains Indian culture, on the history of intertribal relations, and on Indian relation with whites—traders, missionaries, soldiers, settlers, and the U.S. Government.

Book Plagues  Priests  and Demons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel T. Reff
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-12-06
  • ISBN : 9781139442787
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Plagues Priests and Demons written by Daniel T. Reff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on anthropology, religious studies, history, and literary theory, Plagues, Priests, and Demons explores significant parallels in the rise of Christianity in the late Roman empire and colonial Mexico. Evidence shows that new forms of infectious disease devastated the late Roman empire and Indian America, respectively, contributing to pagan and Indian interest in Christianity. Christian clerics and monks in early medieval Europe, and later Jesuit missionaries in colonial Mexico, introduced new beliefs and practices as well as accommodated indigenous religions, especially through the cult of the saints. The book is simultaneously a comparative study of early Christian and later Spanish missionary texts. Similarities in the two literatures are attributed to similar cultural-historical forces that governed the 'rise of Christianity' in Europe and the Americas.

Book Yaqui Indigeneity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2018-03-27
  • ISBN : 0816535884
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Yaqui Indigeneity written by Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines representations of the transborder Yaqui people as interpreted through the writing of Spanish, Mexican, and Chicana/o authors--Provided by publisher.

Book Peyote Religion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Omer Call Stewart
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780806124575
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Peyote Religion written by Omer Call Stewart and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the peyote plant, the birth of peyotism in western Oklahoma, its spread from Indian Territory to Mexico, the High Plains, and the Far West, its role among such tribes as the Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Caddo, Wichita, Delaware, and Navajo Indians, its conflicts with the law, and the history of the Native American Church.