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Author | : Jan Onofrio |
Publisher | : American Indian Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 1070 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0937862282 |
DICTIONARY OF INDIAN TRIBES OF THE AMERICAS - Second Edition contains information on over 1,150 tribal nations of the entire western hemisphere, from the Aleuts of the Arctic region to Onas in southern Argentina and Chile. This is a contemporary work and its intention is to bring modern day insights to the consideration of the native peoples who populate the western hemisphere. Every effort has been made to include tribes that have not been extensively covered in other publications. Modern anthropologists and historians tend to agree that there is a basic homogeneity (cultural, social, biological, or other similarities within a group) among the native peoples of the Americas that need to be considered when any of the tribes are studied. The tribal entries were written by noted local, national and international historians and anthropologists.
Author | : David H. Brown |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2003-10-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780226076096 |
Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. In Santería Enthroned, David H. Brown combines art history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression. Focusing on the royal throne as a potent metaphor in Santería belief and practice, Brown shows how negotiation among ideologically competing interests have shaped the religion's symbols, rituals, and institutions from the nineteenth century to the present. Rich case studies of change in Cuba and the United States, including a New Jersey temple and South Carolina's Oyotunji Village, reveal patterns of innovation similar to those found among rival Yoruba kingdoms in Nigeria. Throughout, Brown argues for a theoretical perspective on culture as a field of potential strategies and "usable pasts" that actors draw upon to craft new forms and identities—a perspective that will be invaluable to all students of the African Diaspora. American Acemy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (Analytical-Descriptive Category)
Author | : Neil L. Whitehead |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2004-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822333456 |
In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or “dark shamanism.” Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans’ healing powers and positive influence. This collection challenges that assumption by showing that dark shamans are, in many Amazonian cultures, quite different from shamanic healers and prophets. Assault sorcery, in particular, involves violence resulting in physical harm or even death. While highlighting the distinctiveness of such practices, In Darkness and Secrecy reveals them as no less relevant to the continuation of culture and society than curing and prophecy. The contributors suggest that the persistence of dark shamanism can be understood as a form of engagement with modernity. These essays, by leading anthropologists of South American shamanism, consider assault sorcery as it is practiced in parts of Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, and Peru. They analyze the social and political dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery and their relation to cosmology, mythology, ritual, and other forms of symbolic violence and aggression in each society studied. They also discuss the relations of witchcraft and sorcery to interethnic contact and the ways that shamanic power may be co-opted by the state. In Darkness and Secrecy includes reflections on the ethical and practical implications of ethnographic investigation of violent cultural practices. Contributors. Dominique Buchillet, Carlos Fausto, Michael Heckenberger, Elsje Lagrou, E. Jean Langdon, George Mentore, Donald Pollock, Fernando Santos-Granero, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Márnio Teixeira-Pinto, Silvia Vidal, Neil L. Whitehead, Johannes Wilbert, Robin Wright
Author | : Lisandro Perez |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2004-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822942191 |
Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.
Author | : Yvonne Daniel |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | : 9780252029660 |
Concentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, Yvonne Daniel considers three African-derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior--Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomblé. Combining her background in dance and anthropology to parallel the participant/scholar dichotomy inherent to dancing's "embodied knowledge," Daniel examines these misunderstood and oppressed performative dances in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, ethics, and aesthetics. "Dancing Wisdom offers the rare opportunity to see into the world of mystical spiritual belief as articulated and manifested in ritual by dance. Whether it is a Cuban Yoruba dance ritual, slave Ring Shout or contemporary Pentecostal Holy Ghost possession dancing shout, we are able to understand the relationship with spirit through dancing with the Divine. Yvonne Daniel's work synthesizes the cognitive empirical objectivity of an anthropologist with the passionate storytelling of a poetic artist in articulating how dance becomes prayer in ritual for Africans of the Diaspora." --Leon T. Burrows, Protestant Chaplain, Smith College'
Author | : Gabriel Medina Téllez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : American Geographical Society of New York |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Latin America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lyle Campbell |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 765 |
Release | : 2012-01-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311025803X |
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.
Author | : United States Board on Geographic Names |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Names, Geographical |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Madison Keller |
Publisher | : Rainbow Dog Books |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2014-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Can an unlikely friendship save the day? Arara’s ears flatten to her head and her lips pull back into a snarl. Kerka chuckles and tries to kick her, but Arara hears the thought coming and dodges easily. The rest of the hunting party, classmates their own age, snicker and wag their tails in amusement. She longs to run away, but today is special. Their hunting trial. Leave, and she’ll still be considered a pup and be stuck here another year at least. Prince Sels walks at the head of a grand procession up to the stage where a dozen furry pups wait. It’s so cold he can’t even get his flowers to open. Sels longs for the hot humid plains of the capital city. He can’t go home until he finds at least one candidate, yet his lack of magic means he can’t feel their potential. One pup of the group catches his eye. Tiny and white, she looks as out of place as he feels, and he feels a jolt of connection with her. But what kind of difference can one magicless prince and a runt puppy make?