Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes

Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes

Author: Donna L. Gillette

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1461484065

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Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and approached the subject from different perspectives. In cultural anthropology and archaeology the understanding of what constitutes religion involves beliefs, oral traditions, practices and rituals, as well as the related material culture including artifacts, landscapes, structural features and visual representations like rock art. Researchers work to understand religious thoughts and actions that prompted their creation distinct from those created for economic, political, or social purposes. Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation. Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements. Studies from a number of different cultural areas and time periods explore how rock art engages the emotions, materializes thoughts and actions and reflects religious organization as it intersects with sociopolitical cultural systems.


Pessimism in International Relations

Pessimism in International Relations

Author: Tim Stevens

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-29

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 3030217809

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This volume explores the past, present and future of pessimism in International Relations. It seeks to differentiate pessimism from cynicism and fatalism and assess its possibilities as a respectable perspective on national and international politics. The book traces the origins of pessimism in political thought from antiquity through to the present day, illuminating its role in key schools of International Relations and in the work of important international political theorists. The authors analyse the resurgence of pessimism in contemporary politics, such as in the new populism, attitudes to migration, indigenous politics, and the Anthropocene. This edited volume provides the first collection of scholarly work on pessimism in International Relations theory and practice and offers fresh perspectives on an intellectual position often considered as disreputable as it is venerable.


Blood Struggle

Blood Struggle

Author: Charles F. Wilkinson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780393051490

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The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century

The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century

Author: Donald L. Fixico

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1457111667

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The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition is updated through the first decade of the twenty-first century and contains a new chapter challenging Americans--Indian and non-Indian--to begin healing the earth. This analysis of the struggle to protect not only natural resources but also a way of life serves as an indispensable tool for students or anyone interested in Native American history and current government policy with regard to Indian lands or the environment.


Termination and Relocation

Termination and Relocation

Author: Donald Lee Fixico

Publisher:

Published: 1990-03-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780826311917

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A major study of the effects on American Indians of the termination and relocation policies instituted during the Truman and Eisenhower era.


The Indian Reorganization Act

The Indian Reorganization Act

Author: Vine Deloria

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780806133980

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In 1934, Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier began a series of "congresses" with American Indians to discuss his proposed federal bill for granting self-government to tribal reservations. In "The Indian Reorganization Act," Vine Deloria, Jr., compiled the actual historical records of those congresses and made available important documents of the premier years of reform in federal Indian policy as well as the bill itself.


Journal of Northwest Anthropology

Journal of Northwest Anthropology

Author: Darby C. Stapp

Publisher: Northwest Anthropology

Published: 2016-03-02

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1530193559

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JONA Volume 50 Number 1 - Spring 2016 Tales from the River Bank: An In Situ Stone Bowl Found along the Shores of the Salish Sea on the Southern Northwest Coast of British Columbia - Rudy Reimer, Pierre Freile, Kenneth Fath, and John Clague Localized Rituals and Individual Spirit Powers: Discerning Regional Autonomy through Religious Practices in the Coast Salish Past - Bill Angelbeck Assessing the Nutritional Value of Freshwater Mussels on the Western Snake River - Jeremy W. Johnson and Mark G. Plew Snoqualmie Falls: The First Traditional Cultural Property in Washington State Listed in the National Register of Historic Places - Jay Miller with Kenneth Tollefson The Archaeology of Obsidian Occurrence in Stone Tool Manufacture and Use along Two Reaches of the Northern Mid-Columbia River, Washington - Sonja C. Kassa and Patrick T. McCutcheon The Right Tool for the Job: Screen Size and Sample Size in Site Detection - Bradley Bowden Alphonse Louis Pinart among the Natives of Alaska - Richard L. Bland