Hidatsa Social And Ceremonial Organization

Author : Alfred W. Bowers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803260989

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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers Pdf

Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowers recorded in the early 1930s from the last generation of Hidatsas who lived in the historic village of Like-a-Fishhook. This documentary record of their nineteenth-century lifeways is now a classic in American ethnography. The book is distinguished for its presentation of extensive personal and ritual narratives that allow Hidatsa elders to articulate directly their conceptions of traditional culture. It combines archeological and ethnographic approaches to reconstruct a Hidatsa culture history that is shaped by a concern for cultural detail stemming from the American ethnographic tradition of Franz Boas. At the same time, its concern for the understanding of social structure reflects the influence of the British structural-functional approach of A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. The most comprehensive account ever published on the Hidatsas, it is of enduring value and interest.

Author : ALFRED W. BOWERS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033300586

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HIDATSA SOCIAL AND CEREMONIAL ORGANIZATION by ALFRED W. BOWERS Pdf

Author : Alfred W. Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Hidatsa Indians
ISBN : UCBK:C043083991

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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers Pdf

Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowers recorded in the early 1930s from the last generation of Hidatsas who lived in the historic village of Like-a-Fishhook. This documentary record of their nineteenth-century lifeways is now a classic in American ethnography. The book is distinguished for its presentation of extensive personal and ritual narratives that allow Hidatsa elders to articulate directly their conceptions of traditional culture. It combines archeological and ethnographic approaches to reconstruct a Hidatsa culture history that is shaped by a concern for cultural detail stemming from the American ethnographic tradition of Franz Boas. At the same time, its concern for the understanding of social structure reflects the influence of the British structural-functional approach of A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. The most comprehensive account ever published on the Hidatsas, it is of enduring value and interest.

Author : Alfred William Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:715435806

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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred William Bowers Pdf

Author : Alfred W. Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 133280070X

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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization (Classic Reprint) by Alfred W. Bowers Pdf

Excerpt from Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization Anthropologists are usually silent with respect to their field methods and their manner of handling research data in the final preparation Of reports. When the researcher lives with the people he is investi gating and writes about a way of life that he is able to Observe, one may presume that most Of what he records is the result of personal observations supplemented by direct inquiry. When I studied the Hidatsa Indians in 1932 and 1933, and for short periods thereafter, little of their ancient way Of life remained, and a description of what I saw then would have told me little of the ancient culture that I was endeavoring to reconstruct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Alfred W. Bowers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803262248

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Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers Pdf

Generations before the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery wintered in the northern Plains, the Mandan Indians farmed along the banks of rivers. The traditional world of the Mandans comes vividly to life in this classic account by anthropologist Alfred W. Bowers. Based on years of research and conversations with Crows Heart and ten other Mandan men and women, Bowers offers an engaging and detailed reconstruction of their way of life in earlier times. Featured here are overviews of how their households function, the makeup of their clan and moiety systems and kinship network, and a valuable look at the entire Mandan life cycle, from birth and naming through adulthood, marriage, and death. Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization also includes descriptions and analyses of Mandan ceremonies, legends, and religious beliefs, including origin myths, the Okipa Ceremony, sacred bundles, Corn ceremonies, the Eagle-Trapping Ceremony, Catfish-Trapping Ceremony, and the Adoption Pipe Ceremony. Many of these practices and beliefs remain vital and relevant for Mandans today. A comprehensive look at the legacy and traditional roots of present-day Mandan culture, Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization is a classic ethnography of an enduring North American Native community.

Author : Linea Sundstrom
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0806135964

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Storied Stone by Linea Sundstrom Pdf

Provides a look at the history of the Black Hills country over the last ten thousand years through rock art, which illustrates the rich oral traditions, religious beliefs, and sacred places of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Mandan, and Hidatsa Indians who once lived there. Original

Author : Elizabeth A. Fenn
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374711078

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Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how these Native American people thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes, and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her own encounters at the heart of the world.

Author : Robert Harry Lowie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Crow Indians
ISBN : UCSC:32106000733698

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Notes on the Social Organization and Customs of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Crow Indians by Robert Harry Lowie Pdf

Author : W. Raymond Wood,Joseph C. Porter,David C. Hunt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0252027566

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Karl Bodmer's Studio Art by W. Raymond Wood,Joseph C. Porter,David C. Hunt Pdf

"During the expedition, twenty-three-year-old Bodmer sketched and painted a wealth of landscapes and Native American portraits that would be immortalized as engravings in Maximilian's published journals and accompanying atlas. Now considered the most vivid and instructive depiction of the nineteenth-century American West and its people prior to the decimation of many Plains tribes by disease, Bodmer's artwork continues to intrigue historians, scholars, and collectors.".

Author : Lee Irwin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806128933

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The Dream Seekers by Lee Irwin Pdf

In The Dream Seekers, Lee Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion. Irwin draws on 350 visionary dreams from published and unpublished sources that span 150 years to describe the shared features of cosmology for twenty-three groups of Plains Indians. This comprehensive work is not a recital but an understandable exploration of the religious world of Plains Indians. The different means of acquiring visions that are described include the spontaneous vision experience common among Plains Indian women and means such as stress, illness, social conflict, and mourning used by both men and women to obtain visions. Irwin describes the various stages of the structured male vision quest as well as the central issues of unsuccessful or abandoned quests, threshold experiences during a vision, and the means by which religious empowerment is attained and transferred.

Author : Roland Bohr
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803248380

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Gifts from the Thunder Beings by Roland Bohr Pdf

Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry contributed greatly to the impact these weapons had on Aboriginal cultures. This gradual transition took place from the beginning of the fur trade in the Hudson’s Bay Company trading territory to the treaty and reserve period that began in Canada in the 1870s. Technological change and the effects of European contact were not uniform throughout North America, as Roland Bohr illustrates by comparing the northern Great Plains and the Central Subarctic—two adjacent but environmentally different regions of North America—and their respective Indigenous cultures. Beginning with a brief survey of the subarctic and Northern Plains environments and the most common subsistence strategies in these regions around the time of contact, Bohr provides the context for a detailed examination of social, spiritual, and cultural aspects of bows, arrows, quivers, and firearms. His detailed analysis of the shifting usage of bows and arrows and firearms in the northern Great Plains and the Central Subarctic makes Gifts from the Thunder Beings an important addition to the canon of North American ethnology.

Author : Jeffery M. Paige,Karen Ericksen Paige
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520311732

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The Politics of Reproductive Ritual by Jeffery M. Paige,Karen Ericksen Paige Pdf

"A welcome addition. They argue that rituals of reproduction in preindustrial societies are essentially political. In these societies, they say, men need to control the reproductive power of women in order to establish political power; where there is no law or central government, ritual is used as a way of gaining control. The type of ritual will vary, they conclude, according to the economic base of the society. . . .for those whoa re interested in the subject, this book is indispensable. Its thesis is challenging and the documentation is excellent. Paige and Paige have mad ean essential contribution to a long debate, and their theory is sure to stir new and lively controversy." --Science Digest This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Author : Harry Liebersohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521003601

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Aristocratic Encounters by Harry Liebersohn Pdf

This 1999 book relates how European aristocrats visiting North America developed an affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies.

Author : Gilbert Livingston Wilson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803267749

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Uses of Plants by the Hidatsa of the Northern Plains by Gilbert Livingston Wilson Pdf

In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of the Hidatsas’ uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove of ethnobotanical information that was buried for more than seventy-five years in Wilson’s archives, now held jointly by the Minnesota Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Wilson recorded Buffalobird-woman’s insightful and vivid descriptions of how the nineteenth-century Hidatsa people had gathered, prepared, and used the plants and wood in their local environment for food, medicine, smoking, fiber, fuel, dye, toys, rituals, and construction. From courtship rituals that took place while gathering Juneberries, to descriptions of how the women kept young boys from stealing wild plums as they prepared them for use, to recipes for preparing and cooking local plants, Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains provides valuable details of Hidatsa daily life during the nineteenth century,