Western Apache Dictionary

Author : Dorothy Bray
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book Western Apache-English Dictionary written by Dorothy Bray and published by Bilingual Review Press (AZ). This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive bilingual dictionary is the culmination of years of collaboration between educators, linguistic scholars and community informants from the White Mountain Apache Tribe. It also includes dialectical variants from other communities, including the San Carlos Tribe. The dictionary has been compiled with the goal of creating a living, working dictionary that will be of value for cultural, educational, and practical purposes. Among these are the teaching of Western Apache to children, the retention and expansion of the oral and written languages, and the preservation of traditional ceremonial songs and oral history. More widely, the dictionary will be useful to Apaches and non-Apaches in practical applications such as medicine, social work, education, and human services. It also provides through its definitions a wealth of culture, history, and lore supplied by the many community informants.

Author : White Mountain Apache Culture Center, Fort Apache, Ariz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Apache Dictionary written by White Mountain Apache Culture Center, Fort Apache, Ariz and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 135 pages
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Download or read book Western Apache Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 162 pages
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Download or read book Western Apache Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Willem Joseph de Reuse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
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Download or read book A Practical Grammar of the San Carlos Apache Language written by Willem Joseph de Reuse and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Leon Wall
Publisher : [Phoenix, Ariz.] : United States Department of the Interior, Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo-English Dictionary written by C. Leon Wall and published by [Phoenix, Ariz.] : United States Department of the Interior, Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs. This book was released on 1958 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a recent surge of interest in Native American history, culture, and lore, Hippocrene brings you a concise and straightforward dictionary of the Navajo tongue. The dictionary is designed to aid Navajos learning English as well as English speakers interested in acquiring knowledge of Navajo. The largest of all the Native American tribes, the Navajo number about 125,000 and live mostly on reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Over 9,000 entries; A detailed section on Navajo pronunciation; A comprehensive, modern vocabulary; Useful, everyday expressions.

Author : Keith H. Basso
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081654350X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Apache Language and Culture written by Keith H. Basso and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven essays, collected here for the first time, define some of the central concerns of linguistic anthropology through the close study of Western Apache, a language of astonishing complexity. All of the essays have been revised for this anthology. Basso, a major authority in the field of linguistic anthropology, has drawn on fieldwork at the village of Cibecue, whose residents speak a dialect of Western Apache that is spoken nowhere else. He shows how intricacies of language—place names, metaphor, uses of silence—help a people define their very existence, so that, in the words of one Apache woman, "If we lose our language, we will lose our breath; then we will die and blow away like leaves." His essays amply demonstrate that, while Apache language and culture are changing in response to modernization, they remain intricate, vital and unique. These essays illustrate not only the complexity of a particular cultural world as it has emerged to one observer over a protracted period of intensive fieldwork, but also the natural movement from the study of grammatical categories to that of language use and on to the study of the conceptual system underlying it. Each essay addresses a significant theoretical problem; taken together they constitute a microcosm of the anthropological understanding of language. CONTENTS The Western Apache Classificatory Verb System: A Semantic Analysis Semantic Aspects of Linguistic Acculturation A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John "Wise Words" of the Western Apache: Metaphor and Semantic Theory "To Give Up on Words": Silence in Western Apache Culture "Stalking With Stories": Names, Places, and Moral Narratives among the Western Apache "Speaking with Names": Language and Landscapes among the Western Apache

Author : Susan D. Gillespie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816513390
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Aztec Kings written by Susan D. Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long viewed histories of the Aztecs either as flawed chronologies plagued by internal inconsistencies and intersource discrepancies or as legends that indiscriminately mingle reality with the supernatural. But this new work draws fresh conclusions from these documents, proposing that Aztec dynastic history was recast by its sixteenth-century recorders not merely to glorify ancestors but to make sense out of the trauma of conquest and colonialism. The Aztec Kings is the first major study to take into account the Aztec cyclical conception of time--which required that history constantly be reinterpreted to achieve continuity between past and present--and to treat indigenous historical traditions as symbolic statements in narrative form. Susan Gillespie focuses on the dynastic history of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, whose stories reveal how the Aztecs used "history" to construct, elaborate, and reify ideas about the nature of rulership and the cyclical nature of the cosmos, and how they projected the Spanish conquest deep into the Aztec past in order to make history accommodate that event. By demonstrating that most of Aztec history is nonliteral, she sheds new light on Aztec culture and on the function of history in society. By relating the cyclical structure of Aztec dynastic history to similar traditions of African and Polynesian peoples, she introduces a broader perspective on the function of history in society and on how and why history must change.

Author : Mrs. Herman Eilers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book English Apache Dictionary written by Mrs. Herman Eilers and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English-Apache vocabulary, compiled in 1893 by Johannes Plocher. The vocabulary lists words in English, from "abdomen" to "Zuni Indians," followed by their equivalents in the language of the San Carlos and White Mountain Apache Indians. Definitions include sentences in Western Apache illustrating the uses of each word, with English translations of the sentences given in red ink. Also included are several short glossaries for days of the week, local geographical names, names of Indian tribes and bands, and masculine and feminine Indian names.

Author : Keith H. Basso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521295932
Total Pages : 146 pages
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Download or read book Portraits of 'the Whiteman' written by Keith H. Basso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-08-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on current theory in symbolic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this interpretive essay investigates a complex form of joking based on material collected in a Western Apache community wherein Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans.