wyszukanych pozycji: 9
![]() |
An Anthropologist's Arrival
ISBN: 9780816530601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ruth M. Underhill (1883-1984) was one of the twentieth century's legendary anthropologists, forged in the same crucible as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. After decades of trying to escape her Victorian roots, Underhill took on a new adventure at the age of forty-six, when she entered Columbia University as a doctoral student of anthropology. Celebrated now as one of America's pioneering anthropologists, Underhill reveals her life's journey in frank, tender, unvarnished revelations that form the basis of An Anthropologist's Arrival. This memoir, edited by Chip...
Ruth M. Underhill (1883-1984) was one of the twentieth century's legendary anthropologists, forged in the same crucible as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, ...
|
cena:
87,21 |
![]() |
People of the Crimson Evening: Early Papago Life
ISBN: 9781410223401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Papago Indian life in the desert Southwest before the coming of the white man, told through the daily life of a family. The works of Ruth Murray Underhill are generally considered to be the most reliable, readable sources on Papago literature and life presently available.
Papago Indian life in the desert Southwest before the coming of the white man, told through the daily life of a family. The works of Ruth Murray Under...
|
cena:
97,70 |
![]() |
Rainhouse and Ocean: Speeches for the Papago Year
ISBN: 9780816517749 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Tohono O'odham of southern Arizona, formerly known as the Papago, have made a life in a place that many would consider uninhabitable. These desert people were converted to Catholicism by early Spanish missionaries, yet they retain much of their earlier lifeway as a means of continuing adaptation to their desert environment. This book is a restudy of speeches and ritual information collected by anthropologist Underhill beginning in 1931 and published in her book Papago Indian Religion (1946). It describes the Native--as opposed to the Christian--side of the yearly ritual cycle of...
The Tohono O'odham of southern Arizona, formerly known as the Papago, have made a life in a place that many would consider uninhabitable. These desert...
|
cena:
82,36 |
![]() |
Singing for Power: The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona
ISBN: 9780520326125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
cena:
164,83 |
![]() |
The Navajos, 43
ISBN: 9780806118161 / Angielski / Miękka / 1956 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Volume 43 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series "A must for every student of the Southwest and fine reading for anyone interested in the history of his country." - American Historical Review "She has brought together, from an amazing variety of sources, a complete history of The People . . .. In detailing what is known of that history, from the time of the Navajos' appearance in the western hemisphere to the present, she has outlined much of material culture, of social relations and organizations, and of ceremonial life . . . Dr. Underhill has afforded her readers gimpses of what...
Volume 43 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series "A must for every student of the Southwest and fine reading for anyone interested in the h...
|
cena:
82,36 |
![]() |
Singing for Power: The Song Magic of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona
ISBN: 9780520367463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
511,83 |
![]() |
Red Man's Religion: Beliefs and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico
ISBN: 9780226841670 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Among the topics considered in this classic study are world origins and supernatural powers, attitudes toward the dead, the medicine man and shaman, hunting and gathering rituals, war and planting ceremonies, and newer religions, such as the Ghost Dance and the Peyote Religion. "The distinctive contribution of Red Man's Religion] is the treatment of topics, the insight and the perspective of the author, and her ability to transmit these to the reader. . . . Trais and aspects of religion are not treated as abstract entitites, to be enumerated and summated, assigned a geographic...
Among the topics considered in this classic study are world origins and supernatural powers, attitudes toward the dead, the medicine man and shaman, h...
|
cena:
137,78 |
![]() |
Red Man's America: A History of Indians in the United States
ISBN: 9780226841656 / Angielski / Miękka / 1971 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Red Man's America" meets the great need for a comprehensive study of Indian societies from the first Stone Age hunters to the American citizens of today. Beginning with the first migrations of primitive man from Siberia in the Old World to Alaska in the New, probably during the latter part of the Pleistocene glaciations, and his subsequent migration southward and eastward, the author takes up in turn the tribes and cultures of the various regions of North America.
The material Professor Underhill has gathered from the fields of archaeology, ethnology, and history, together with that... "Red Man's America" meets the great need for a comprehensive study of Indian societies from the first Stone Age hunters to the American citizens of to...
|
cena:
122,47 |
![]() |
Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian
ISBN: 9780472061099 / Angielski / Miękka / 1961 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From pony to airplane, from medicine dance to Christian worship, Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder is the life story of a Winnebago woman, told in her own words to her adopted kinswoman, Nancy Lurie. This retelling of more than seventy-five years of Native American life is both a candid and compelling account of how one woman lived through a period of cultural crisis. Mountain Wolf Woman tells of her childhood in Wisconsin, her brief stay at a mission school, her marriage to "Bad Soldier," and her religious experiences with peyote. Her struggle to maintain... From pony to airplane, from medicine dance to Christian worship, Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder is the life story of a Winn... |
cena:
66,09 |