Author : Julian W. Bilby
Publisher : Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Baffin Island (N.W.T.)
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Narrative description of living conditions and culture of the Eskimo of Baffin Island in the early twentieth century.
Author : Evelyn Wolfson
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2014-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766061795
During the long cold winter nights, Inuit families snuggled together in their winter houses and listened to tales about a time when unbelievable things could happen. These adventurers broke up the long hours of winter darkness and gave the listeners a cultural and traditional heritage. Each chapter is followed by a Question and Answer section which covers themes, symbols, and characters; and an Expert Commentary section, which makes for great discussion. This book is developed from INUIT MYTHOLOGY to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2004-02-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0691119422
Surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where Shamanism was first observed--to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the Shaman--at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet.
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Page : 904 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 908 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Bibliography
ISBN :
Author : Aubrey Cannon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317544226
Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However, until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. 'Structured Worlds' examines the role of cosmology, values, and perceptions in the archaeological histories of hunter-fisher-gatherers. The essays examine a range of cultures - Mesolithic Europe, Siberia, Jomon Japan, the Northwest Coast, the northern Plains, and High Arctic of North America - to show the role of conceptual frameworks in subsistence and settlement, technology, mobility, migration, demography, and social organization. Spanning from the early Holocene period to the present day, 'Structured Worlds' draws on archaeology and ethnography to explore the role of beliefs, ritual, and social values in the interaction between foragers and their physical and social landscape. Material culture, animal bones and settlement patterns show that the behaviours of hunter-gatherers were shaped as much by cultural concepts as by material need.
Author : Rand Corporation
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Research
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Author : Penny Petrone
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487516916
Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral tradition in their ancient languages and a more recent tradition of written English. Penny Petrone traces the two paths that link the cultural past of arctic peoples with its expression in the present day. The book's first section includes traditional legends, myths, folk history told by native story-tellers, and poetry sung by Inuit composers. The second presents statements and observations by some of the first Inuit to come into contact with European newcomers, including official reports, interviews, letters, and diaries. Next are early poetry and prose in translation, much of it autobiographical. The final section includes contemporary Inuit writing, from essays and speeches to fiction, poetry, and other genres of imaginative literature. The editor has provided an introduction for each item and arranged the material chronologically to give historical perspective and continuity to the whole.
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Stationery
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Author : Kristina Rose Fagan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802098266
Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments. Rejecting the 'great-divide' theory of orality and literacy as separate and opposite to one another, the contributors posit that whatever meanings the two concepts have are products of their ever-changing relationships to one another. Through topics as diverse as Aboriginal Canadian societies, Ukrainian-Canadian narratives, and communities in ancient Greece, Medieval Europe, and twentieth-century Asia, these cross-disciplinary essays reveal the powerful ways in which cultural assumptions, such as those about truth, disclosure, performance, privacy, and ethics, can affect a society's uses of and approaches to both the written and the oral. The fresh perspectives in Orality and Literacy reinvigorate the subject, illuminating complex interrelationships rather than relying on universal generalizations about how literacy and orality function.
