Adze, Canoe, and House Types of the Northwest Coast
Author : Ronald Leroy Olson
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Ronald Leroy Olson
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Robert H. Ruby
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806189525
The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent political, economic, and cultural developments shaping these Native communities. From such well-known tribes as the Nez Perces and Cayuses to lesser-known bands previously presumed "extinct," this guide offers detailed descriptions, in alphabetical order, of 150 Pacific Northwest tribes. Each entry provides information on the history, location, demographics, and cultural traditions of the particular tribe. Among the new features offered here are an expanded selection of photographs, updated reading lists, and a revised pronunciation guide. While continuing to provide succinct histories of each tribe, the volume now also covers such contemporary—and sometimes controversial—issues as Indian gaming and NAGPRA. With its emphasis on Native voices and tribal revitalization, this new edition of the Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest is certain to be a definitive reference for many years to come.
Author : Robert Bruce Inverarity
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520005952
Discusses the social patterns, material culture, and religion of the Indian tribes of Northwest North America stressing aspects of their primitive art.
Author : Carol F. Jopling
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Copperwork
ISBN : 9780871697912
Author : Allen Noble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0857717456
Based on a lifelong professional and personal interest, "Traditional Buildings" presents a unique survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China, the stilt houses on the shores of Dahomey, the housebarns of Europe and North America, the wind towers of Iran, the Bohio houses of the Arawak Indians of the Caribbean, and much more. Professor's Noble's extensive travels have allowed him to examine many of the building at close quarters and the richly illustrated text includes photographs from his personal collection. With its comprehensive and detailed bibliography, the work will be welcomed by experts and non-specialists alike.
Author : Claude Lv̌i-Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 1983-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226474915
The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Lévi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology." As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structural anthropology while affording a glimpse into the mind of one of the foremost anthropologists of our time. "Structural Anthropology, Volume II is a diverse collection. [It is] a useful 'sampler' that gives a reader the full range of Lévi-Strauss's interests."—Daniel Bell, New York Times Book Review
Author : Robert L. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1107355095
In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.
Author : William Bright
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110871645
The works of Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) continue to provide inspiration to all interested in the study of human language. Since most of his published works are relatively inaccessible, and valuable unpublished material has been found, the preparation of a complete edition of all his published and unpublished works was long overdue. The wide range of Sapir's scholarship as well as the amount of work necessary to put the unpublished manuscripts into publishable form pose unique challenges for the editors. Many scholars from a variety of fields as well as American Indian language specialists are providing significant assistance in the making of this multi-volume series.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
Author : Ruth Underhill
Publisher : [Washington] : Education Division of the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
A facsimile reprint of a 1945 report on the Northwest Indians, answering questions about who they are, what they eat, their housing, work, clothing, home life, government, religion, and status.