Masked Gods

Author : Frank Waters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masked Gods written by Frank Waters and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masked gods is a vast book, a challenging and profoundly original account of the history, legends, and ceremonialism of the Navaho and Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Following a brief but vivid history of the two tribes through the centuries of conquest, the book turns inward to the meaning of Indian legends and rituals : Navaho sings, Pueblo dances, Zuni kachina ceremonies. Enduring still, these rituals and ceremonies express a view of life, of man's place in the creation, which is compared with Taoism and Buddhism, and with the aggressive individualism of the Western world.

Author : Kenneth Macgowan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masks and Demons written by Kenneth Macgowan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abdullah Öcalan
Publisher : Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization
ISBN 13 : 9788293064428
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilization written by Abdullah Öcalan and published by Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manifesto offers the essence of Öcalan's ideas on society, knowledge, and power, and they are crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. Öcalan argues that a criticism that limits itself to capitalism is too superficial, and in this work, he turns his eyes to the underlying structures of civilization.

Author : Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537429
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian Medicine Ways written by Clifford E. Trafzer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans in their relationships with each other and the natural world. Many American Indians—past and present—have had the ability to use power to access wisdom, knowledge, and spiritual understanding. This groundbreaking collection provides fascinating stories of wisdom, spiritual power, and forces within tribal communities that have influenced the past and may influence the future. Through discussions of omens, prophecies, war, peace, ceremony, ritual, and cultural items such as masks, prayer sticks, sweat lodges, and peyote, this volume offers examples of the ways in which Native American beliefs in spirits have been and remain a fundamental aspect of history and culture. Drawing from written and oral sources, the book offers readers a greater understanding of creation narratives, oral histories, and songs that speak of healers, spirits, and power from tribes across the North American continent. American Indian medicine ways and spiritual power remain vital today. With the help of spirits, people can heal the sick, protect communities from natural disasters, and mediate power of many kinds between the spiritual and corporeal worlds. As the contributors to this volume illustrate, healers are the connective cloth between the ancient past and the present, and their influence is significant for future generations. CONTRIBUTORS R. David Edmunds Joseph B. Herring Benjamin Jenkins Troy R. Johnson Michelle Lorimer L. G. Moses Richard D. Scheuerman Al Logan Slagle Clifford E. Trafzer

Author : Ellen Russell Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masks, Heads, and Faces written by Ellen Russell Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Horgan
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573604
Total Pages : 1041 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great River written by Paul Horgan and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize– and Bancroft Prize–winning epic history of the American Southwest from the acclaimed twentieth-century author of Lamy of Santa Fe. Great River was hailed as a literary masterpiece and enduring classic when it first appeared in 1954. It is an epic history of four civilizations—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American—that people the Southwest through ten centuries. With the skill of a novelist, the veracity of a scholar, and the love of a long-time resident, Paul Horgan describes the Rio Grande, its role in human history, and the overlapping cultures that have grown up alongside it or entered into conflict over the land it traverses. Now in its fourth revised edition, Great River remains a monumental part of American historical writing. “Here is known and unknown history, emotion and color, sense and sensitivity, battles for land and the soul of man, cultures and moods, fused by a glowing pen and a scholarly mind into a cohesive and memorable whole.” —The Boston Sunday Herald “Transcends regional history and soars far above the river valley with which it deals . . . a survey, rich in color and fascinating in pictorial detail, of four civilizations: the aboriginal Indian, the Spanish, the Mexican, and the Anglo-American . . . It is, in the best sense of the word, literature. It has architectural plan, scholarly accuracy, stylistic distinction, and not infrequently real nobility of spirit.” —Allan Nevins, author of Ordeal of the Union “One of the major masterpieces of American historical writing.” —Carl Carmer, author of Stars Fell on Alabama

Author : Margie Greyvenstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849440653
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masked Gods - Book 1 of Masked Gods written by Margie Greyvenstein and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am the one who lives in your dreams, the one who travels the ways of your heart, the one who rests in the lap of your thoughts, the one who rides the waves of your anger. I am your weapon in the arena; I am your counter weight in the Balance; I am your alter ego, I am Shadow.'

Author : Ruth Benedict
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Culture written by Ruth Benedict and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the civilizations of the Zuni Indians, the natives of Dobu, and the Kwakiutl Indians.

Author : Ruth Benedict
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547523920
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Culture written by Ruth Benedict and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthropologist compares three diverse societies in this groundbreaking, “unique and important” cultural study (The New York Times). A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture made history in exploring the role of culture in shaping our lives. In it, the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict offers an in-depth look at three societies—the Zuñi of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of Melanesia—and demonstrates the diversity of behaviors in them. Benedict’s groundbreaking study shows that a unique configuration of traits defines each human culture and she examines the relationship between culture and the individual. Featuring prefatory remarks by Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Louise Lamphere, who calls it “a foundational text in teaching us the value of diversity,” this provocative work ultimately explores what it means to be human. “That today the modern world is on such easy terms with the concept of culture . . . is in very great part due to this book.” —Margaret Mead

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: