Desert Indian Woman

Author : Frances Sallie Manuel
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816520089
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Indian Woman written by Frances Sallie Manuel and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basket weaver, storyteller, and tribal elder, Frances Manuel is a living preserver of Tohono O'odham culture. Speaking to anthropologist Deborah Neff, who has known her for over twenty years, she tells of O'odham culture and society and of the fortunes and misfortunes of Native Americans in the southwestern borderlands over the past century.

Author : Frances Manuel
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816544123
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Indian Woman written by Frances Manuel and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basket weaver, storyteller, and tribal elder, Frances Manuel is a living preserver of Tohono O’odham culture. Speaking in her own words from the heart of the Arizona desert, she now shares the story of her life. She tells of O’odham culture and society, and of the fortunes and misfortunes of Native Americans in the southwestern borderlands over the past century. In Desert Indian Woman, Frances relates her life and her stories with the wit, humor, and insight that have endeared her to family and friends. She tells of her early childhood growing up in a mesquite brush house, her training in tribal traditions, her acquaintance with Mexican ways, and her education in an American boarding school. Through her recollections of births and deaths, heartache and happiness, we learn of her family’s migration from the reservation to the barrios and back again. In the details of her everyday life, we see how Frances has navigated between O’odham and American societies, always keeping her grandparents’ traditional teachings as her compass. It is extraordinary to hear from a Native American woman like Frances, in her own words and her own point of view, to enter the complex and sensitive aspects of her life experience, her sorrows, and her dreams. We also become privy to her continuing search for her identity across the border, and the ways in which Frances and Deborah have attempted to make sense of their friendship over twenty-odd years. Throughout the book, Deborah captures the rhythms of Frances’s narrative style, conveying the connectedness of her dreams, songs, and legends with everyday life, bringing images and people from faraway times and places into the present. Deborah Neff brings a breadth of experience in anthropology and Southwest Native American cultures to the task of placing Frances Manuel’s life in its broader historical context, illuminating how history works itself out in people’s everyday lives. Desert Indian Woman is the story of an individual life lived well and a major contribution to the understanding of history from a Native American point of view.

Author : Robyn Davidson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148046404X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Places written by Robyn Davidson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Tracks: A travel writer’s memoir of her year with the nomadic Rabari tribe on the border between Pakistan and India. India’s Thar Desert has been the home of the Rabari herders for thousands of years. In 1990, Australian Robyn Davidson, “as natural a travel writer as she is an adventurer,” spent a year with the Rabari, whose livelihood is increasingly endangered by India’s rapid development (The New Yorker). Enduring the daily hardships of life in the desert while immersed in the austere beauty of the arid landscape, Davidson subsisted on a diet of goat milk, roti, and parasite-infested water. She collided with India’s rigid caste system and cultural idiosyncrasies, confronted extreme sleep deprivation, and fought feelings of alienation amid the nation’s isolated rural peoples—finding both intense suffering and a renewed sense of beauty and belonging among the Rabari family. Rich with detail and honest in its depictions of cultural differences, Desert Places is an unforgettable story of fortitude in the face of struggle and an ode to the rapidly disappearing way of life of the herders of northwestern India. “Davidson will both disturb and exhilarate readers with the acuity of her observations, the sting of her wit, and the candor of her emotions” (Booklist).

Author : Hilda Faunce
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803268531
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Wife written by Hilda Faunce and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wife of an Indian trader tells of her life in the Four Corners country where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado touch.

Author : Meenakshi Bharat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788185753591
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert in Bloom written by Meenakshi Bharat and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Investigates The Tremendous Contemporary Spurt In The Literary Creativity Of 'Women Writers' In Indian English Fiction. Demonstrating That Fictional Creation Is No 'Male Territory' And Women Are No 'Trespassers' In It, The Contributors To This Study, Both Discerning Critics And Major Fictionists, Scrutinize And Evaluate The Diverse, Inter-Related Aspects Of Women'S Fiction. The Volume Meticulously Brings Together The Voices Of These Persistent And Determined Sheherzades, Too Significant To Miss Or Ignore, In A Wide-Ranging Selection Of Perceptive Essays, Written In Jargon-Free And Refreshing Prose.

Author : Tara Dairman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525518061
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Girl, Monsoon Boy written by Tara Dairman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme weather affects two children's lives in very different ways and shows how the power of nature can bring us together. One girl. One boy. Their lives couldn't be more different. While she turns her shoulder to sandstorms and blistering winds, he cuffs his pants when heavy rains begin to fall. As the weather becomes more severe, their families and animals must flee to safety--and their destination shows that they might be more alike than they seem. The journeys of these two children experiencing weather extremes in India highlight the power of nature and the resilience of the the human spirit.

Author : Odie B. Faulk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crimson Desert written by Odie B. Faulk and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia Blackburn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307829235
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daisy Bates in the Desert written by Julia Blackburn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez.

Author : Catherine Clement
Publisher : Abradale Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Eves written by Catherine Clement and published by Abradale Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the harsh Thar desert of Rajasthan State in Northwest India, the famed photographer Hans Silvester found his paradise. Not far from the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, who assumed the ways of the poor out of solidarity, the women of the desert live a hard life, without electricity, without running water, without doctors. With only the simplest means, they keep their homes scrupulously clean and decorate them with wonderful designs. With the barest of resources, they clothe themselves so richly that their costumes have been copied by fashionable women in the West. The women sing while working in the fields or picking over grains, and while spinning thread in their tiny courtyards. Their songs, dating back centuries, invoke ancient gods and goddesses. The intensity of this simple life captured by Hans Sylvester's lens is matched by Catherine Clement's poetic and provocative text, a musing meditation on this region of India and its inhabitants - especially its women, the Eves of the desert

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographical Teacher written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews" and other bibliographical material.