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The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe
ISBN: 9780803279018 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Middle Five, first published in 1900, is an account of Francis La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in northeastern Nebraska about the time of the Civil War. It is a simple, affecting tale of young Indian boys midway between two cultures, reluctant to abandon the ways of their fathers, and puzzled and uncomfortable in their new roles of "make-believe white men." The ambition of the Indian parents for their children, the struggle of the teachers to acquaint their charges with a new world of learning, and especially the problems met by both parents and... The Middle Five, first published in 1900, is an account of Francis La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in nort... |
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61,53 zł |
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The Osage and the Invisible World: The Works of Francis La Flesche
ISBN: 9780806131320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Francis La Flesche (1857-1932), Omaha Indian and anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, published an enormous body of work on the religion of the Osage Indians, all gathered from the most knowledgeable Osage religious leaders of their day. Yet his writings have been largely overlooked because they were published piecemeal over the course of twenty-five years and never adequately collected or analyzed. In this book, Garrick A. Bailey brings together in a clear, understandable way La Flesche's data for two important Osage religious ceremonies--the "Songs of Wa-xo'-be," an... Francis La Flesche (1857-1932), Omaha Indian and anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, published an enormous body of work on the re... |
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150,08 zł |
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The Omaha Tribe, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780803268777 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1911 by the Bureau of American Ethnology, The Omaha Tribe is an irreplaceable classic, the collaboration of a pioneering anthropologist and a prominent Omaha ethnologist. Volume II takes up the language, social life, music, religion, warfare, healing practices, and death and burial customs of the Omahas. The first volume covered tribal origins and early history, organization and government, various beliefs and rites, and food gathering. Alice C. Fletcher was the foremost woman anthropologist in the United Stares in the nineteenth century. Francis La Flesche, a member...
Originally published in 1911 by the Bureau of American Ethnology, The Omaha Tribe is an irreplaceable classic, the collaboration of a pioneering anthr...
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82,11 zł |