Syllabus Series

Syllabus Series
Author: University of California (System)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1922
Genre:
ISBN:

Changing Genders in Intercultural Perspectives

Changing Genders in Intercultural Perspectives
Author: Barbara Saunders
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789058672018

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the essays in this book develop contextual and strategic analyses of the way sex-gender constellations can be configured as political identities, as a resource, or in response to unforeseen contingencies.

The Blackfeet

The Blackfeet
Author: Bryan R. Johnson
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1988
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Structured Worlds

Structured Worlds
Author: Aubrey Cannon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317544226

Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However, until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. 'Structured Worlds' examines the role of cosmology, values, and perceptions in the archaeological histories of hunter-fisher-gatherers. The essays examine a range of cultures - Mesolithic Europe, Siberia, Jomon Japan, the Northwest Coast, the northern Plains, and High Arctic of North America - to show the role of conceptual frameworks in subsistence and settlement, technology, mobility, migration, demography, and social organization. Spanning from the early Holocene period to the present day, 'Structured Worlds' draws on archaeology and ethnography to explore the role of beliefs, ritual, and social values in the interaction between foragers and their physical and social landscape. Material culture, animal bones and settlement patterns show that the behaviours of hunter-gatherers were shaped as much by cultural concepts as by material need.

War Paintings of the Tsuu T'ina Nation

War Paintings of the Tsuu T'ina Nation
Author: Arni Brownstone
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803265212

During much of the nineteenth century, paintings functioned as the Plains Indians’ equivalent to written records. The majority of their paintings documented warfare, focusing on specific war deeds. These pictorial narratives—appearing on hide robes, war shirts, tipi liners, and tipi covers—were maintained by the several dozen Plains Indians tribes, and they continue to expand historical knowledge of a people and place in transition. War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation is a study of several important war paintings and artifact collections of the Tsuu T’ina (Sarcee) that provides insight into the changing relations between the Tsuu T’ina, other plains tribes, and non-Native communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arni Brownstone has meticulously created renderings of the paintings that invite readers to explore them more fully. All known Tsuu T’ina paintings are considered in the study, as are several important collections of Tsuu T’ina artifacts, with particular emphasis on five key works. Brownstone’s analysis furthers our understanding of Tsuu T’ina pictographic war paintings in relation to the social, historical, and artistic forces that influenced them and provides a broader understanding of pictographic painting, one of the richest and most important Native American artistic and literary genres.