Shamanism And Vulnerability On The North And South American Great Plains
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Author | : Kathleen Bolling Lowrey |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2020-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1646420365 |
In Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey provides an innovative and expansive study of indigenous shamanism and the ways in which it has been misinterpreted and dismissed by white settlers, NGO workers, policymakers, government administrators, and historians and anthropologists. Employing a wide range of theory on masculinity, disability, dependence, domesticity, and popular children’s literature, Lowrey examines the parallels between the cultures and societies of the South American Gran Chaco and those of the North American Great Plains and outlines the kinds of relations that invite suspicion and scrutiny in divergent contexts in the Americas: power and autonomy in the case of Amerindian societies and weakness and dependence in the case of settler societies. She also demonstrates that, where stigmatized or repressed in practice, dependence and power manifest and intersect in unexpected ways in storytelling, fantasy, and myth. The book reveals the various ways in which anthropologists, historians, folklorists, and other writers have often misrepresented indigenous shamanism and revitalization movements by unconsciously projecting ideologies and assumptions derived from modern ‘contract societies’ onto ethnographic and historical realities. Lowrey also provides alternative ways of understanding indigenous American communities and their long histories of interethnic relations with expanding colonial and national states in the Americas. A creative historical and ethnographical reevaluation of the last few decades of scholarship on shamanism, disability, and dependence, Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains will be of interest to scholars of North and South American anthropology, indigenous history, American studies, and feminism.
Author | : Hélène Clastres |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Chiefdoms |
ISBN | : 9780252063510 |
Author | : US Global Change Research Program |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1510726217 |
As global climate change proliferates, so too do the health risks associated with the changing world around us. Called for in the President’s Climate Action Plan and put together by experts from eight different Federal agencies, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health: A Scientific Assessment is a comprehensive report on these evolving health risks, including: Temperature-related death and illness Air quality deterioration Impacts of extreme events on human health Vector-borne diseases Climate impacts on water-related Illness Food safety, nutrition, and distribution Mental health and well-being This report summarizes scientific data in a concise and accessible fashion for the general public, providing executive summaries, key takeaways, and full-color diagrams and charts. Learn what health risks face you and your family as a result of global climate change and start preparing now with The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health.
Author | : Jenny Blain |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 113451915X |
This accessible study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems evoked in the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas have been rediscovered and reinvented by groups in Europe and North America. The book examines the phenomenon of altered consciousness and the interactions of seid-workers or shamanic practitioners with their spirit worlds. Written by a follower of seidr, it investigates new communities involved in a postmodern quest for spiritual meaning.
Author | : Tarryl Janik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2016-01-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692594445 |
Jack Warren is a low-life--a suicidal cop haunted by past tragedy. Suddenly a promiscuous teenage girl goes missing at the local rest stop just outside of small town Wisconsin. Despite Jack's alcoholism, he is on the case. Evidence suggests murder, but what Jack ultimately discovers is something far more sinister...
Author | : Richard Howard Robbins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-01 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 9780176570163 |
Author | : Beatriz Huertas Castillo |
Publisher | : IWGIA |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788790730772 |
"This book offers a historic and anthropological perspective from which to understand the fragility of isolated indigenous groups in the face of contact with outside society. It helps us appreciate the importance, in terms of cultural and biological diversity, of safeguarding their territories for both their future and that of the human race." "Drawing on scientific and legal principles, international agreements, and primarily from the perspective of human rights, Beatriz Huertas Castillo presents solid arguments concerning the urgent need for national and international efforts to defend the territories, cultural integrity and life ways of isolated indigenous peoples."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Among the crucial problems that confront mankind today are those associated with a degraded environment. This book examines the extent to which warfare and other military activities contribute to such degradation. The military capability to damage the environment and to cause ecological disruption has escalated, and there is no sign that the level of conflict in the world is decreasing. The military use and abuse of each of the several major global habitats -- temperate, tropical, desert, arctic, insular, and oceanic -- are evalusated separately in the light of the civil use and abuse of that habitat"--Dust jacket.
Author | : Olga Soffer |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 148991112X |
From the American Side I went to the USSR for the first time in 1982 to attend the 11th meeting of the International Union for Quaternary research (INQUA) held at the Moscow State University. At that time relations between our two countries were anything but congenial and many restrictions were placed on our viewing the archaeological and paleontological collections and labora tory facilities. This was not the ideal climate for the free exchange of ideas needed for meaningful research. However, it was obvious to us that the strained relations did not extend to scientific discussions between scholars. We left that meeting well aware that if the problems of prehistoric Old World-New World relationships were to be resolved, it would eventually require cooperative research efforts within the world community of archaeologists. At that time, the pre-Clovis problem in New World archaeology was foremost in the minds of many North American researchers: tool technology and assemblages were being studied as a possible means of establishing cultural relationships across the Bering Strait, Clovis sites and mammoth kills were being looked at with new ideas for interpretation, and New World researchers realized that to resolve these questions they had to become familiar with the archaeological record of northeast Asia. A chance meeting of the writer with Olga Soffer in 1983 led to serious discussions of the sites on the Russian or East European Plain.
Author | : David M. Wrobel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521192013 |
This book examines the regional history of the American West in relation to the rest of the United States, emphasizing cultural and political history.