Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America
ISBN: 9780874809244 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest witnessed the emergence, persistence, and decline of a diverse array of hunter-gatherer communities during the course of a past several thousand year period. Consequently, the region contains an archaeological record of groups who lived at times in permanent villages, employed complex resource procurement and processing strategies, participated in wide-ranging trade networks, and maintained social organizations featuring high degrees of social inequality. Complex Hunter-Gatherers presents a broad synthesis of the archaeology of the...The Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest witnessed the emergence, persistence, and decline of a diverse array of hunter-gatherer communities dur... |
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Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
ISBN: 9781599866673 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is the first hand biographical story written by Mary Rowlandson. Rowlandson, a colonial woman in Lancaster, Massachusetts during the late 17th century, was captured by Native Americans for seven week and five days. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson has been one of the most popular captivity narratives and is highly recommended for those who are interested in American history and those who enjoy reading captivity narratives.
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is the first hand biographical story written by Mary Rowlandson. Rowlandson, a colo...
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54,22 zł |
Alcohol in Ancient Mexico
ISBN: 9780874808605 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alcohol in Ancient Mexico reconstructs the variety and extent of distillation traditions in the ancient cultures of Mexico, describing in detail the various plants and processes used to make such beverages, their prevalence, and their significance for local culture. The art of distillation arrived in Mexico with the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. However, well before that time, native skills and available resources had contributed to a well-developed tradition of intoxicating beverages, many of which are still produced and consumed. In the 1930's Henry Bruman... Alcohol in Ancient Mexico reconstructs the variety and extent of distillation traditions in the ancient cultures of Mexico, describing in de... |
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144,60 zł |
The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman
ISBN: 9780803218321 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Over the next six years she witnessed many of the monumental events that affected the Lakotas, including the inception of the Ghost Dance religion and the fallout from the Wounded Knee massacre in December 1890. She also fell in love with and married Charles Eastman, a Dakota doctor with whom she had six children, and went on to help edit his many popular books on...
Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she t...
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128,31 zł |
Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer
ISBN: 9780226201474 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its 400 men, and every soldier under Custer s direct command was killed.
It s easy to understand why this tremendous defeat shocked the American public at the time. But with "Custerology," Michael A. Elliott tackles the far more complicated question of why the battle still haunts the American imagination today. Weaving vivid historical accounts of Custer at Little Bighorn with contemporary... On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhau...
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85,85 zł |
Death and the Classic Maya Kings
ISBN: 9780292718906 / Angielski / Twarda / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics, red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls, obsidian blades, and mosaics. Archaeological investigation of these burials, as well as the decipherment of inscriptions that record Maya rulers' funerary rites, have opened a fascinating window on how the ancient Maya envisaged the ruler's passage from the world of the living to the realm of the ancestors. Focusing on the Classic Period (AD... Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish gr... |
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275,25 zł |
Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California
ISBN: 9780822342168 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state s coast have remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. The large mollusks also represent contemporary struggles surrounding cultural identity and political sovereignty. Abalone Tales, a collaborative ethnography, presents different perspectives on the multifaceted material and symbolic relationships between abalone and the Ohlone, Pomo, Karuk, Hupa, and Wiyot peoples of California. The research agenda, analyses,...
For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state s coast have remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tr...
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458,76 zł |
Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California
ISBN: 9780822342335 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state s coast have remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tradable commodity, and material with which to make adornment and sacred regalia. The large mollusks also represent contemporary struggles surrounding cultural identity and political sovereignty. Abalone Tales, a collaborative ethnography, presents different perspectives on the multifaceted material and symbolic relationships between abalone and the Ohlone, Pomo, Karuk, Hupa, and Wiyot peoples of California. The research agenda, analyses,...
For Native peoples of California, the abalone found along the state s coast have remarkably complex significance as food, spirit, narrative symbol, tr...
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112,09 zł |
Black Robe and Tomahawk: The Life and Travels of Fr Pierre-Jean De Smet, SJ (1801-1873)
ISBN: 9780852445761 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fr Pierre-Jean De Smet, SJ is one of the most remarkable among the great missionary figures of the Society of Jesus. Born in Belgium, he emigrated to the United States to enter the Jesuit novitiate and was ordained in Missouri in 1837. He founded St Joseph's Mission at Council Bluffs for the Potawatomies in 1838, and visited the Sioux to arrange a peace between that nation and the Potawatomies, the first of his many peace missions. In 1840 he set out for the territory of the Flatheads in the far Northwest, and established St Mary's Mission on the Bitter Root River in Montana, and three years...
Fr Pierre-Jean De Smet, SJ is one of the most remarkable among the great missionary figures of the Society of Jesus. Born in Belgium, he emigrated to ...
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119,95 zł |
Ah Mo: Indian Legends from the Northwest
ISBN: 9780888392442 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains legends collected by Judge Arthur E Griffin from Indian tribes in Washington State. The legends were told to Judge Griffin by Indian storytellers between 1884 and 1947. The legends have been rewritten by the Judge's grandson and great-grandson to make them more pleasant for children to read. Serious students of Indian folklore should refer to the original stories which reflect the complex writing style of the period. The original stories collected by Judge Griffin can be found in research libraries, such as Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington. Indian...
This book contains legends collected by Judge Arthur E Griffin from Indian tribes in Washington State. The legends were told to Judge Griffin by India...
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81,32 zł |
More Ah Mo: Indian Legends from the Northwest
ISBN: 9780888393036 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,74 zł |
Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform
ISBN: 9780801443541 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Kwakiutl Legends: as told to Pamela Whitaker by Chief James Wallas
ISBN: 9780888392305 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The stories in this book relate the traditional tales which Mr James Wallas has learned from his elders, who lived in Quatsino Sound and on Hope Island. Mr. Wallas's forefathers are members of a people known generally as the Kwakiutl, although the term is misleading because it originally referred to a sub-group living at Fort Rupert. The Kwakiutl inhabit an area which at present includes Campbell River at the southern extreme, Quatsino Sound at the western extreme, various inlets of mainland BC at the eastern extreme, and Smiths Inlet at the northern extreme. Traditionally, the Kwakiutl lived...
The stories in this book relate the traditional tales which Mr James Wallas has learned from his elders, who lived in Quatsino Sound and on Hope Islan...
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119,71 zł |
Native Americans of East-Central Indiana
ISBN: 9781540202758 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,05 zł |
Fire Light: The Life of Angel de Cora, Winnebago Artist
ISBN: 9780806139548 / Angielski / Twarda / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first biography of this important American Indian artist
The first biography of this important American Indian artist
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185,92 zł |
Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells
ISBN: 9780299226046 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today a tourist mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness--and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk, who for centuries migrated to this part of the Wisconsin River for both sustenance and spiritual renewal. By the late 1800s their numbers had dwindled through displacement or forcible removal, and it was this smaller band that caught the attention of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett. Having built his reputation on his photographs of the Dells' steep gorges and fantastic rock formations, H. H. Bennett now turned his camera upon the...
Today a tourist mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness--and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Ch...
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From Night to Knight
ISBN: 9780976278078 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the Baha'i world in 1953 hearts throbbed with longing and minds quickened with dreams of destinations and destinies in response to the call for pioneers to open territories virgin to the Baha'i Faith. The spiritual reward, to be accompanied by the correlative title of "Knight of Baha'u'llah," would be great. This book is the story of that call and the results. It was in response to this call that I did not only go to the remote Island of Unalska in the Aleution chain but was a trip from a material world to a spiritual world.
Throughout the Baha'i world in 1953 hearts throbbed with longing and minds quickened with dreams of destinations and destinies in response to the call...
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64,26 zł |
The Cherokee Strip: A Tale of Oklahoma Boyhood
ISBN: 9780806135731 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Here is the perpetual variety of small town Oklahoma characters, incidents, changes; the self-confidence of an American boyhood; in honest, winning revelation."-Kirkus Reviews "Here is the perpetual variety of small town Oklahoma characters, incidents, changes; the self-confidence of an American boyhood; in honest, winnin... |
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155,94 zł |
Those Born at Koona: The Totem Poles of the Haida Village Skedans, Haida Gwaii
ISBN: 9780888391018 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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143,70 zł |
Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak;or, Black Hawk Embracing the Traditions of His Nation, Various Wars in Which He has Been Engaged, and His A
ISBN: 9781409784821 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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139,09 zł |