Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California, Paperback - Sean O'Neill

In this thought-provoking re-examination of the hypothesis of linguistic relativity, Sean O'Neill looks closely at the Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk peopl...

Reducere. The Indians of California, in their ethnographic present, offered the widest cultural range to be found in any area of the United States. In the no...

Reducere. Here is a story of the Lenape Indians who lived in what is now New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. It describes their culture, crafts, and languag...

DescriptionMark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the ab...

'The Whiteman' is one of the most powerful and pervasive symbols in contemporary American Indian cultures. Portraits of 'the Whiteman': linguistic ...

Reducere. This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preserva...

Reducere. Native Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian...

Reducere. Enjoy this Dan Jones' classic which contains a fast-paced narrative of his many journeys across the American West, the difficult and sometimes secr...

Reducere. This information-packed guide describes patterns of village life, and covers such subjects as Indian tools and artifacts, hunting techniques, and f...

Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely rel...

Reducere. Michigan Notable BooksMichael Blake's Dances with Wolves transformed denigrating Indian sterotypes and created widespread interest in Native Americ...

Reducere. Third Revised EditionDuring the Victorian Era in Berks County, Pennsylvania, a group of gentlemen and farmers shared their findings of the various ...

Reducere. Are you interested in learning more about California? Sure, you've heard of Hollywood, but how much do you really know about the Golden State? Do y...

This volume explores the role of linguistic ecology in the study of language contact. Bringing together an international team of experts, it offers...

Travel back in time to the North-Eastern part of North America of the 1500s, when initial and sustained contacts between Europeans and Natives were...

This is a detailed account of Lee's captivity among the Comanches in the 1850s and his escape through the mountains back to white civilization.

Reducere. A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth centu...

Reducere. During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, ...

Reducere. In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument wi...

This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a p...

Reducere. The stories collected in The Dawn of the World were related by the Miwok elders after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremoni...

Reducere. Narrative Of A Captivity Among The Mohawk Indians, And A Description Of New Netherland In 1642-3 has been considered by academicians and scholars o...

Reducere. In Native Carolinians, Dr. Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at UNC at Chapel Hill, discusses the history, life-sty...

A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24 The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few...

Reducere. First published in 1892, Early Life Among the Indians is the biography of Benjamin Armstrong, who in 1840 took up his residence in northern Wiscons...

Reducere. In this landmark text of anthropology, Franz Boas profiles various groups of primitive peoples, analyzing their hereditary characteristics, morphol...

Reducere. In a real-life version of Little Big Man comes the Indian-captive narrative of Herman Lehmann. Captured as a boy in 1870, he lived for nine years a...

Reducere. Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (1876-1938), better known by her pen name, Zitkala-Sa, was a Native American writer, editor, musician, teacher and politica...

The first book on the topic in English in over sixty years, Science among the Ottomans contends that, contrary to the generally accepted belief tha...

Reducere. Exploring the destruction of the native Californians, this thorough history discusses the philosophies and language references such as ""Diggers"" ...

Reducere. An amazing account of the survival of an American lady among hostile Indians This is a remarkable story of one woman's ordeal and a testament of ex...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Ethnobotany of the California Indians, revised, updated, expanded, from the First Edition (2003), is a compilation of 1, 343 plants ...

Reducere. This book examines how the Wamapanoag Indians' adoption of Christianity and other selective borrowing from English culture contributed to Indian/En...

Reducere. ``Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An ap...

Reducere. Herman Lehmann may be the most famous person taken captive by Indians in Texas. Snatched from his family's home in Loyal Valley in May 1870, at abo...

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Reducere. Constance Goddard Du Bois (1889-1934) was an American novelist and an ethnographer, writing extensively between 1899 and 1908 about the native peop...

Reducere. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with whi...

In Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic mino...

Sir Richard Francis Burton was perhaps the most colorful British explorer of the 19th century. In 1860 he left England and his fiance to explore th...

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Reducere. In this revealing book, Ricardo Gonz lez shares his incredible experiences with the Apunians, extraterrestrial beings that come from the future wit...