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Author : Hope B. Werness
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0826414656
This lavishly produced voulume is the first reference work to focus on the symbols, meaning, and significance of art in native, or indigenous, cultures.
Author : Aaron Glass
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774863803
Long known as the Cannibal Dance, the Hamat̓sa is among the most important hereditary prerogatives of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ꞌwakw of British Columbia. Drawing on published texts, extensive archival research, and fieldwork, Writing the Hamat̓sa offers a critical survey of attempts to record, interpret, and prohibit the ceremony. Such textual mediation and Indigenous response over four centures helped transform the Hamat̓sa from a set of specific practices. into a generalized cultural icon. This meticulous work illuminates how Indigenous people contribute to, contest, and repurpose texts in the process of fashioning modern identities under settler colonialism.
Author : Stanley Walens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400857326
Professor Walens shows that the Kwakiutl visualize the world as a place of mouths and stomachs, of eaters and eaten. His analyses of the social rituals of meals, native ideas of the ethology of predation, a key Kwakiutl myth, and the Hamatsa dance, the most dramatic of their ceremonials, demonstrate the ways in which oral, assimilative metaphors encapsulate Kwakiutl ideas of man's role in the cosmos. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Joy Inglis,Harry Assu
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774843065
Harry Assu, a chief of the Lekwiltok -- the southernmost tribe of the Kwagiulth Nation -- was born in 1905 in Cape Mudge, Quadra Island, British Columbia. His father was Billy Assu, one of the most renowned chiefs of the Northwest, who led his people from a traditional way of life into modern prosperity. As well as being a family chronicle, Harry Assu's recollections tell the little-known story of the Lekwiltok from legendary times to the present. Drawing on the oral traditions of his people, he narrates the story of the 'Great Flood' which gave sacred sanction to territories settled by them. Hand-drawn and historical maps illustrate his account of coastal alliances and raids by other tribes over the last two centuries and provide an understanding of the current land and sea claims of the Kwagiulth Nation. Supernatural beings inhabited the worlds of his ancestors and of Assu's boyhood, and he recalls encounters with birds and whales which held particular significance for his family. His description of a more recent experience -- his own potlatch in 1984 -- is perhaps the most complete record of a modern potlatch. As well, his account of the seizure of potlatch regalia in 1922, the jailing of the leaders and the subsequent restoration of these family treasures is a rare view from inside Indian culture. Harry Assu put his faith in education and welcomed the efforts of teachers sent by the Methodist Missionary Society. He remains an elder and supporter of the United Church at Cape Mudge. Symbolizing the achievement of his tribe in bringing into harmony a traditional culture with commercial fishing, in which he was involved for sixty years, Harry Assu reminisces about the old cannery days on the coast and tells of the continuing struggle by his people to maintain a place in the modern fishing industry. Assu of Cape Mudge is illustrated with drawings of supernatural events by artist and author Hilary Stewart which were drawn near Cape Mudge while Harry Assu described the dramatic occurrences. The Kwakwala words have been transcribed by Peter Wilson, with a full record of language association, meaning, and optional spellings. Also included in the book and of general interest are an appendix of ancient tales told by the Lekwiltok and a genealogical chart of the Assu family. This personal memoir by an important Native leader of British Columbia will delight anthropologists, historians, and all those with an interest in Native studies and autobiography.
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520936302
With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar, and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth. As Obeyesekere compares responses to the most fundamental questions of human existence, he challenges readers to reexamine accepted ideas about death, cosmology, morality, and eschatology. Obeyesekere's comprehensive inquiry shows that diverse societies have come through independent invention or borrowing to believe in reincarnation as an integral part of their larger cosmological systems. The author brings together into a coherent methodological framework the thought of such diverse thinkers as Weber, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche. In a contemporary intellectual context that celebrates difference and cultural relativism, this book makes a case for disciplined comparison, a humane view of human nature, and a theoretical understanding of "family resemblances" and differences across great cultural divides.
Author : George Franklin Feldman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493082025
This riveting volume dispels the sanitized history surrounding Native American practices toward their enemies that preceded the European exploration and colonization of North America. We abandon truth when we gloss over the clashes between Native Americans and Europeans, encounters of parties equally matched in barbarity, says George Franklin Feldman, We neglect true history when we hide the uniqueness of the varied cultures that evolved during the thousands of years before Europeans invaded North America. The research is impeccable, the writing sparkling, and the evidence incontrovertible: headhunting and cannibalism were practiced by many of the native peoples of North America.
Author : Rosemary I. Patterson
Publisher : Rosemary I. Patterson, Ph.D.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1419624237
Return of the Canoe Society is both a thrilling adventure novel of dugout paddlers making a journey up the rugged coast of B. C. to demonstrate solidarity in Treaty Right negotiations and a Literary History of Land Claim attempts in B. C. by Coastal Tribes since 1874.
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Karma
ISBN : 8120826094
With Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small scale indigenous societies of West Africa, Melanesia, and North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritiative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth.
Author : Marie-Françoise Guédon,D. G. Hatt
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772822403
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society (1979) with contributed papers ranging in topic from semiology to the seventeenth century Iroquois wars to Japanese ghost stories.
Author : Christian F. Feest
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803268971
North American Indians have fired the imaginations of Europeans for the past five hundred years. The Native populations of North America have served a variety of European cultural and emotional needs, ranging from noble savage role models for Old World civilization to a more sympathetic portrayal as subjugated victims of American imperialism. ø This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection of essays offers the first in-depth, extended look at the complicated, changing relationship between European and Native peoples. The contributors explore three aspects of this relationship: Why and how did the cultures and histories of Europeans enable Native peoples to become absorbed into the reality of the Old World? What happened in actual encounters between American Indian visitors and their European hosts? How did continued and increased interaction between Indians and Europeans affect established imagery and preconceptions on both sides?
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Classic Books Company
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780742698109
Author : Audrey Hawthorn
Publisher : University of British Columbia ; Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : UOM:39015000677164
Tribes include: Bella Coola -- Haida -- Kwakiutl -- Nootka -- Salish -- Tsimshian./ Works include: Boxes -- Canoes -- Ceremonial curtains -- Clothing -- Headdresses -- Masks -- Puppets -- Rattles -- Soul catchers -- Tableware -- Tools and weapons -- Totem poles -- Whistles.`/ Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-405) and index./ Also issued online.
Author : Jim McDowell
Publisher : Ronsdale
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054119758
The first book-length study of whether cannibalism existed on the Pacific Northwest coast. McDowell shows how a cannibal complex among Westerners coloured many early accounts of man-eating, and how this perception obscured the importance of ritual cannibalism in the secret Hamatsa ceremony--a crucial feature of Native spirituality.
Author : Henry Bial
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 0415302412
The Performance Studies Reader is a lively and much-needed anthology of critical writings on the burgeoning discipline of performance studies. It provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. The collection is designed as a companion to Richard Schechner's popular Performance Studies: an Introduction (Routledge, 2002), but is also ideal as a stand-alone text. Henry Bial collects together key critical pieces from the field, referred to as 'suggested readings' in Performance Studies: an Introduction. He also broadens the discussion with additional selections. The structure and themes of the Reader closely follow those of Schechner's companion textbook. The articles in each section focus particularly on three primary areas in performance studies, theatre, anthropology and sociology/cultural studies.
Author : Leslie A. Robertson,the the Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774823869
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las tells the remarkable story of Jane Constance Cook (1870-1951), a controversial Kwakwaka’wakw leader and activist who lived during a period of enormous colonial upheaval. Working collaboratively, Robertson and Cook’s descendants draw on oral histories and textual records to create a nuanced portrait of a high-ranked woman, a cultural mediator, devout Christian, and aboriginal rights activist who criticized potlatch practices for surprising reasons. This powerful meditation on memory and cultural renewal documents how the Kwagu’l Gixsam have revived their long-dormant clan in the hopes of forging a positive cultural identity for future generations through feasting and potlatching.
