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  • Looking for Lost Lore

    Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography

    All students of the past bump into what seem to be impenetrable walls and are left looking longingly beyond the barrier for the lore that seems hopelessly lost. This book is an argument that all that information is not necessarily lost. It may just need a different approach–perhaps multidisciplinary, perhaps a new method, or maybe just with a new hypothesis for testing. Vanished societies have ... Leer más

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  • Reachable Stars

    Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America

    Modern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are Forces that determine human lives, some declare they are burning gaseous masses, and some see them as reminders of a gloried past by which elders can teach and guide the young—mnemonics for narratives. Lankford’s volume focuses on the ancient North Americans and the ... Leer más

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  • Native American Legends of the Southeast

    Tales from the Natchez, Caddo, Biloxi, Chickasaw, and Other Nations

    The study of legends has long been a critical component of cultural anthropological analysis. In Native American Legends of the Southeast, George E. Lankford has compiled and analyzed a collection of unique and rare legends that will continue to appeal to scholars and students of Native American culture and the study of legends in general. ... Leer más

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  • Forging Southeastern Identities

    Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South

    Forging Southeastern Identities explores the many ways archaeologists and ethnohistorians define and trace the origins of Native Americans’ collective social identity.Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries ... Leer más

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  • Torn by War

    The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers

    The Civil War divided the nation, communities, and families. The town of Batesville, Arkansas, found itself occupied three times by the Union army. This compelling book gives a unique perspective on the war’s western edge through the diary of Mary Adelia Byers (1847–1918), who began recording her thoughts and observations during the Union occupation of Batesville in 1862.Only fifteen when she ... Leer más

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  • Visualizing the Sacred

    Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World

    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set of symbols and motifs that constituted one of the greatest artistic traditions of the pre-Columbian Americas. Traditionally known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, these artifacts of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood were the subject of the ... Leer más

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  • The Search for Mabila

    The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa

    One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within an Indian province known as Mabila. Although the Indians were defeated, the battle was a decisive blow ... Leer más

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    Understanding Native American Religious Traditions

    Teaching Spirits offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. Through years of living with and learning about Native traditions across the continent, Joseph Epes Brown learned firsthand of the great diversity of the North American Indian cultures. Yet within this great multiplicity, he also noticed certain common themes that resonate within many Native traditions. These ... Leer más

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  • Living with Animals

    Ojibwe Spirit Powers

    Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams – in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, ... Leer más

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  • Laughing with the Trickster

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    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators.Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have a blast and to laugh ourselves silly.Celebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five ... Leer más

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  • Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

    Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

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  • Trickster Makes This World

    Mischief, Myth, and Art

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    In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and ... Leer más

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