wyszukanych pozycji: 18
The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt
ISBN: 9780803265646 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a vision, seen himself as the "sixth grandfather," the spiritual representative of the earth and of mankind. Raymond J. DeMallie makes available for the first time the transcripts from Neihardt's interviews with Black Elk in 1931 and 1944, which formed the basis for the two books. His introduction offers new insights into the life of Black Elk.
In Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a ...
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124,68 zł |
Eagle Voice Remembers: An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World
ISBN: 9780803283985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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124,68 zł |
Osage Grammar
ISBN: 9780803238039 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 491 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When Europeans first made contact with the Osages, they lived in present-day Missouri, along the Osage River. After being forced onto a reservation, the Osages purchased land from the Cherokees in Indian Territory and resettled in northeastern Oklahoma in the later part of the nineteenth century. Today the Osage tribe numbers about 18,000, but only two elders still speak the traditional language, a member of the Siouan family of languages. Osage Grammar is the first documentation of how the Osage language works, including more than two thousand sentences from Osage speakers, and a detailed...
When Europeans first made contact with the Osages, they lived in present-day Missouri, along the Osage River. After being forced onto a reservation, t...
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322,21 zł |
Waterlily
ISBN: 9780803219045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family s camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community and are eventually integrated into their kinship circles. Ella Cara Deloria s tale follows Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, through the intricate kinship practices that created unity among her people.
Waterlily, published after Deloria s death and generally viewed as the masterpiece of her career, offers a captivating glimpse... When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family s camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible f...
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77,90 zł |
Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux
ISBN: 9780806122199 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "If that is Long Hair, I am the one who killed him," White Bull, the young nephew of Sitting Bull, said when Bad Juice pointed out Custer's body immediately after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Yet it was Sitting Bull who acquired the notoriety and was paraded in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as "the warrior who killed Custer." But this new edition of Stanley Vestal's classic biography of the famous chief emphasizes that "Sitting Bull's fame does not rest upon the death of Custer s five troops. Had he been twenty miles away shooting antelope that morning, he would still remain the... "If that is Long Hair, I am the one who killed him," White Bull, the young nephew of Sitting Bull, said when Bad Juice pointed out Custer's body im... |
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140,21 zł |
Dakota Texts
ISBN: 9780803266605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ella Deloria (1889 1971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by Franz Boas at Columbia University. Dakota Texts presents a rich array of Sioux mythology and folklore in its original language and in translation. Originally published in 1932 by the American Ethnological Society, this work is a landmark contribution to the study of the Sioux tribes."
Ella Deloria (1889 1971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservati...
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103,89 zł |
A Whirlwind Passed Through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance
ISBN: 9780806160191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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136,49 zł |
The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
ISBN: 9780803281776 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 483 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, at his home in Nevada and traced the progress of the Ghost Dance from place to place, describing the ritual and recording the distinctive song lyrics of seven separate tribes. His classic work (first published in 1896 and here reprinted in its entirety for the first time) includes succinct cultural and historical introductions to each of those tribal groups and depicts the...
Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and u...
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161,10 zł |
Transforming Ethnohistories: Narrative, Meaning, and Community
ISBN: 9780806143941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where anthropologists and historians needs intersect is ethnohistory. The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the teaching and writing of distinguished ethnohistorian Raymond J. DeMallie, whose exemplary combination of ethnographic and archival research demonstrates the ways anthropology and history can work together to create an understanding of the past and the present. "Transforming Ethnohistories "comprises ten new...
Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where an...
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158,51 zł |
A Cheyenne Voice: The Complete John Stands in Timber Interviews
ISBN: 9780806163055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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372,33 zł |
Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition and Innovation
ISBN: 9780806121666 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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140,21 zł |
Indians of the Plains
ISBN: 9780803279070 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. First published in 1954, Robert H. Lowie's Indians of the Plains surveys in a lucid and concise fashion the history and culture of the Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. The author visited various tribes from 1906 to 1931, observing them carefully, participating in their lifeways, studying their languages, and listening to their legends and tales. After a half century of study, Lowie wrote this book, praised by anthropologists as the synthesis of a lifetime's work. A preface by Raymond J. DeMallie situates the book in the history of American anthropology and...
First published in 1954, Robert H. Lowie's Indians of the Plains surveys in a lucid and concise fashion the history and culture of the Indian tribes b...
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72,70 zł |
A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal and Description of Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794-1796
ISBN: 9780803244276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau's journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his Description of the Upper Missouri. This fully modern edition of this essential journal surpasses all previous editions in assisting scholars and general readers to understand Truteau's travels.
Offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau's journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains...
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431,35 zł |
The Dakota Way of Life
ISBN: 9781496233592 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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150,66 zł |
Life Among the Indians: First Fieldwork Among the Sioux and Omahas
ISBN: 9780803241152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Alice C. Fletcher (1838 1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota.
Life among the Indians, Fletcher s popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886 87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881 82, remained unpublished in Fletcher s archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it Fletcher... Alice C. Fletcher (1838 1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in th...
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280,63 zł |
Lakota Belief and Ritual
ISBN: 9780803297319 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis
Provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis
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109,08 zł |
Lakota Myth
ISBN: 9780803298606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. James R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of previously unpublished material from the Walker collection presents his work on Lakota myth and legend. This edition includes classic examples of Lakota oral literature, narratives that were known only to a few Oglala holy men, and Walker's own literary cycle based on all he had learned about Lakota myth. Lakota Myth is an indispensable source for students of comparative literature,...
James R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much abou...
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88,29 zł |
Lakota Society
ISBN: 9780803297371 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the primary accounts of Walker's informants and his syntheses dealing with the organization of camps and bands, kinship systems, beliefs, ceremonies, hunting, warfare, and methods of measuring time.
As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways ...
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88,29 zł |