The Scalp Ceremonial of Zuni
Author: Elsie Clews Parsons
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 123
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Author: Elsie Clews Parsons
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 123
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 382
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Will Roscoe
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780826313706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe life of We'wha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian history.
Author: Eliza McFeely
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2015-06-23
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1466894105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bold new study of the Zuni, of the first anthropologists who studied them, and of the effect of Zuni on America's sense of itself The Zuni society existed for centuries before there was a United States, and it still exists in its desert pueblo in what is now New Mexico. In the late nineteenth century, anthropologists-among the first in this new discipline-came to Zuni to study it and, they believed, to salvage what they could of its tangible culture before it was destroyed, which they were sure would happen. Matilda Stevenson, Frank Hamilton Cushing, and Stewart Culin were the three most important of these early students of Zuni, and although modern anthropologists often disparage and ignore their work-sometimes for good, sometimes for poor reasons-these pioneers gave us an idea of the power and significance of Zuni life that has endured into our time. They did not expect the Zuni themselves to endure, but they have, and the complex relation between the Zuni as they were and are and the Zuni as imagined by these three Easterners is at the heart of Eliza McFeely's important new book. Stevenson, Cushing, and Culin are themselves remarkable subjects, not just as anthropology's earliest pioneers but as striking personalities in their own right, and McFeely gives ample consideration, in her colorful and absorbing study, to each of them. For different reasons, all three found professional and psychological satisfaction in leaving the East for the West, in submerging themselves in an alien and little-known world, and in bringing back to the nation's new museums and exhibit halls literally thousands of Zuni artifacts. Their doctrines about social development, their notions of "salvage anthropology," their cultural biases and predispositions are now regarded with considerable skepticism, but nonetheless their work imprinted Zuni on the American imagination in ways we have yet to measure. It is the great merit of McFeely's fascinating work that she puts their intellectual and personal adventures into a just and measured perspective; she enlightens us about America, about Zuni, and about how we understand each other.
Author: George W. Stocking
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780803206410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the 1920s through the end of World War II, American anthropology grew in complexityøwhile its scope became increasingly global and contemporary. Much insightful and innovative work continued to be produced by scholars working with Native American and First Nation communities, but the significant contributions of those conducting research abroad soon became hard to ignore. The nature of culture and acculturation were scrutinized and theorized about repeatedly; the relationship between culture and personality became an important subject of inquiry; particular historical reconstructions were joined by more synchronic studies of cultures; and more anthropologists gave attention to current events and to unraveling the intricacies of modern culture. The discipline as a whole moved away from affiliations with museums and instead cast itself as a social science within the academy; at the same time, government sponsorship of anthropological research increased markedly through New Deal initiatives and wartime programs of the 1940s. The thirty-nine selections in this volume represent the increasingly diverse areas of research and range of lasting accomplishments in American anthropology during the interwar period. Introducing these essays is a historical overview of American anthropology during this era by George W. Stocking Jr.
Author: Dennis Tedlock
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-06-03
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0812205308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 770
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Author: Trudy Griffin-Pierce
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780826319081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive guide to the historic and contemporary indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, intended for college courses and the general reader.