Download or read book The Navajos written by Ruth Murray Underhill and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history and culture of the southwestern Indian tribe

Download or read book A Din History of Navajoland written by Klara Kelley and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a sweeping history of the Diné that is foregrounded in oral tradition. Authors Klara Kelley and Harris Francis share Diné history from pre-Columbian time to the present, using ethnographic interviews in which Navajo people reveal their oral histories on key events such as Athabaskan migrations, trading and trails, Diné clans, the Long Walk of 1864, and the struggle to keep their culture alive under colonizers who brought the railroad, coal mining, trading posts, and, finally, climate change. The early chapters, based on ceremonial origin stories, tell about Diné forebears. Next come the histories of Diné clans from late pre-Columbian to early post-Columbian times, and the coming together of the Diné as a sovereign people. Later chapters are based on histories of families, individuals, and communities, and tell how the Diné have struggled to keep their bond with the land under settler encroachment, relocation, loss of land-based self-sufficiency through the trading-post system, energy resource extraction, and climate change. Archaeological and documentary information supplements the oral histories, providing a comprehensive investigation of Navajo history and offering new insights into their twentieth-century relationships with Hispanic and Anglo settlers. For Diné readers, the book offers empowering histories and stories of Diné cultural sovereignty. “In short,” the authors say, “it may help you to know how you came to be where—and who—you are.”

Download or read book The Mountainway of the Navajo written by Leland C. Wyman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive examination of a Navajo song ceremonial and its various branches, phases, and ritual. Includes a myth of the female branch recorded and translated by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M., 32 illustrations of Mountainway sandpaintings, with detailed analysis of their symbols and designs.

Download or read book The Wheelwright Family Story written by Steve J. Plummer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an illustrated history of the extraordinary Anglo-American Wheelwright family.In 1636 an outspoken Puritan, Reverend John Wheelwright, left his native Lincolnshire and headed for the new Boston Bay Colony. His stay in Massachusetts would be short lived.Persecuted and banished, Reverend John went on to found two New England towns and a dynasty which now spans six continents.The Wheelwrights have produced explorers, engineers, clerics, consuls and a family of cannibals. There are philanthropists, philanderers, psychoanalysts, scientists, soldiers and sailors.A sea captain became a pirate. A lawyer became a gold-digging sportsman and a kidnapped child was transformed from Puritan to Catholic mother superior.The Wheelwright's story, complete with black sheep and skeletons a-plenty, spans four centuries. Hundreds of illustrations and family charts, drawn from years of research, bring 580 pages of this most remarkable family's history to life.

Download or read book Hail Chanter written by Gerald Hausman and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of Evil Chasing Way, Hand Trembler and Sungazer Hail Chanter, Book Four, in the Star Song series, features one man winding and wending his way through Southwestern real-time and dream-time. This novel serves as the final healing rapture of the previous three books: Evil Chasing Way, Hand Trembler, and Sungazer. In the earlier novels, the author/storyteller used the ancient art of singing to a star, hand trembling, and praying. The result, from the traditions of the Navajo Old Ways, turns a burning light into a healing one. This process took place on an operating table and in a radiation chamber. Hausman states: “I followed the sacred speech that a star makes. It lived within me and healed both the inside and outside of me.” The emergence ceremony in Hail Chanter intertwines a mixture of ancient religion with modern medicine. The novel portrays Winter Thunder blowing apart a human form, making it all come together. The healer said: “It all comes together like a bunch of broken parts waiting to be annealed all over again.” This captivating story maintains Jack Andrews as the hero from the first three novels, while also exploring the character of Jay DeGroat, a Navajo friend of Gerald’s for fifty years. “…Hausman honors Native American philosophy and spirituality even as he reveals it.” —Booklist “Carlos Castaneda would've loved this book.” —Dr Michael Gleeson, Anthropologist

Download or read book The Music and Dance of the World s Religions written by E. Rust and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-08-23 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the world-wide association of music and dance with religion, this is the first full-length study of the subject from a global perspective. The work consists of 3,816 references divided among 37 chapters. It covers tribal, regional, and global religions and such subjects as shamanism, liturgical dance, healing, and the relationship of music, mathematics, and mysticism. The referenced materials display such diverse approaches as analysis of music and dance, description of context, direct experience, observation, and speculation. The references address topics from such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, history, linguistics, musicology, ethnomusicology, theology, medicine, semiotics, and computer technology. Chapter 1 consists of general references to religious music and dance. The remaining 36 chapters are organized according to major geographical areas. Most chapters begin with general reference works and bibliographies, then continue with topics specific to the region or religion. This book will be of use to anyone with an interest in music, dance, religion, or culture.

Download or read book Acculturation in the Navajo Eden written by Seymour H. Koenig and published by YBK Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treatise on the archaeology, history, ethnohistory, linguistics, and religion of the peoples of the Southwest-the Navajo, Keresans, Tanoans, Utes, Spaniards and Anglos, who are the tapestry of that land. This book is about people-where they lived, what they believed, and how they interacted with others. The chapters are entitled: The Navajo Eden: The Dinetah; The Eastern Ancestral Puebloans; The Spaniards Enter and Settle, 1540-1700; The Tanoan and Keresan Rio Grande Puebloans; Acculturation in the Dinetah; Keresan and Tanoan Religions and Societal Organizations; Navajo Origin Myth and Societal Organization; Protohistoric Rio Grande Ceremonialism; Gods of the Navajo Night Chant; Universal Female and Male Deities."

Download or read book Earth is My Mother Sky is My Father written by Trudy Griffin-Pierce and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the circularity of Navajo thought through studies of sandpaintings, chantway myths, and stories reflected in the constellations.

Download or read book The Navaho written by Clyde Kluckhohn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors review Navaho history from archaeological times to the present, and then present Navaho life today. This book presents not only a study of Navaho life, however; it is an impartial discussion of an interesting experiment in government administration of a dependent people.

Download or read book Mythology and Values written by Katherine Spencer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Katherine Spencer examines Navaho cultural values by studying a specific subset of Navaho mythology: chantway myths, part of ceremonies performed to cure illness. She begins with a summary of the general plot construction of chantway myths and the value themes presented in these plots, then discusses “explanatory elements” inserted by the narrators of the myths. She continues with a deeper analysis of the cultural value judgements conveyed by these myths. At the end of the book, Spencer includes abstracts of the myths she discusses.

Download or read book Uncommon Anthropologist written by Nancy Mattina and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard (1893–1955) is one of America’s least-appreciated anthropologists. Her accomplishments were obscured in her lifetime by differences in intellectual approach and envy, as well as academic politics and the gender realities of her age. This biography offers the first full account of Reichard’s life, her milieu, and, most important, her work—establishing, once and for all, her lasting significance in the history of anthropology. In her thirty-two years as the founder and head of Barnard College’s groundbreaking anthropology department, Reichard taught that Native languages, written or unwritten, sacred or profane, offered Euro-Americans the least distorted views onto the inner life of North America’s first peoples. This unique approach put her at odds with anthropologists such as Edward Sapir, leader of the structuralist movement in American linguistics. Similarly, Reichard’s focus on Native psychology as revealed to her by Native artists and storytellers produced a dramatically different style of ethnography from that of Margaret Mead, who relied on western psychological archetypes to “crack” alien cultural codes, often at a distance. Despite intense pressure from her peers to conform to their theories, Reichard held firm to her humanitarian principles and methods; the result, as Nancy Mattina makes clear, was pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language—amplified by an exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring. Drawing on Reichard’s own writings and correspondence, this book provides an intimate picture of her small-town upbringing, the professional challenges she faced in male-centered institutions, and her quietly revolutionary contributions to anthropology. Gladys Reichard emerges as she lived and worked—a far-sighted, self-reliant humanist sustained in turbulent times by the generous, egalitarian spirit that called her yearly to the far corners of the American West.

Download or read book Everywhere Being Is Dancing written by Robert Bringhurst and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion volume to The Tree of Meaning, Robert Bringhurst collects twenty essays under the subversive principle that "everything is related to everything else." His studies build upon this sense of basic connection, and involve the work of poets, musicians, and philosophers as varied as Ezra Pound, John Thompson, Don McKay, Empedokles, Parmenides, Aristotle, Skaay, Plato, George Clutesi, Elizabeth Nyman, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Dennis Lee, and Glenn Gould. The value Bringhurst places on the process of translation, the dialogue between one language and another, and the sheer experience of witnessing translation by reading and hearing poems, stories, and songs in their original languages is another strong presence in this collection. Accompanying the English narrative are passages in Tlingit, Haida, Chinese, Greek, German, Cree, and Russian, for readers who want to find the patterns and taste some of the vocabulary for themselves, for those interested in meeting the languages partway.

Download or read book Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika a written by Watson Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith was one of the Southwest’s foremost archaeological scholars. In this classic, he reported on the remarkable murals found at Awatovi and other Puebloan sites in the underground ceremonial chambers known as kivas. Now reissued in a stunning facsimile edition, the volume includes color reproductions of the original serigraphs by Louie Ewing.

Download or read book Songs of Life written by Gill and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Talking to the Ground written by Douglas Preston and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God comes an entrancing, eloquent, and entertaining account of the author’s adventurous journey on horseback through the Southwest in the heart of Navajo desert country. In 1992 author Douglas Preston and his wife and daughter rode horseback across 400 miles of desert in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. They were retracing the route of a Navajo deity, the Slayer of Alien Gods, on his quest to restore beauty and balance to the Earth. More than a travelogue, Preston’s account of their “one tough journey, luminously remembered” (Kirkus Reviews) is a tale of two cultures meeting in a sacred land and is “like traveling across unknown territory with Lewis and Clark to the Pacific” (Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee).

Download or read book The Navajos written by Ruth M. Underhill and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women Language and Linguistics written by Julia S. Falk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the vital part which women have played in preserving a linguistics based on the reality and experience of language; bringing to light a much neglected perspective for those working in linguistics.