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  by flashgordon

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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Authors: Peter N. Jones Marie L. McLaughlin Zitkala-Sa

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Tags: american native legends indian myths lakota oral Sioux traditions

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Description: Oral traditions and myths have long been an integral part of Native American cosmology. NotOral traditions and myths have long been an integral part of Native American cosmology. Not only have they been – and continue to be – an essential part of handing down Native American customs, norms, beliefs, and cultural histories, but they also form a communal mythic discourse. This discourse is not a “fixed text,” but rather a dynamic process of interactive relations that are developed over generations of experience, and passed from relation to relation and generation to generation. In this sense, the traditional structures of mythic discourse serve an integrative function: to form a coherent basis for communal identity in terms of a shared set of fundamental ideas and beliefs expressed in multiple forms.

The oral traditions and myths recorded in this book are part of the communal mythic discourse of the Lakota Sioux people. Originally collected and recorded at the close of the nineteenth century by two Native language speakers – Marie L. McLaughlin and Zitkala Sa – these oral traditions provide some of the least distorted or colonially disrupted examples of the Lakota Sioux communal mythic discourse. Containing over 40 oral traditions, Lakota Sioux Legends and Myths brings together into a single volume these remarkable myths and legends.

Edited and with a forward by Peter N. Jones, Ph.D., Lakota Sioux Legends and Myths is a welcome and refreshing addition to the literature. Once again the beauty, depth, and knowledge contained within the Lakota Sioux oral traditions can speak for themselves....

2009-06-11

  by snozzwanger & 97 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Neil Gaiman

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Tags: fantasy american mythology a city rock north american-indian house on

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Description: Brilliant advance of a North American mythology, not to supplant that of the American IndiansBrilliant advance of a North American mythology, not to supplant that of the American Indians but to provide an alternate for those of European heritage. Right.
A great read and fantastic "what if" set in a country that tends not to ask that question....

2008-06-22

  by ldelaney & 5 users

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Type: fiction

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Author: Shirley Jackson

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Tags: fantasy psychology fiction american magic classic adventure horror america supernatural literature death ghosts psychicalresearch lifeafterdeath hauntedhouse

2008-05-01

  by ldelaney

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Type: documentary

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Status: neutral

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Author: George W. Hilton

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Tags: history american historical illinois america crime nonfiction death tragedy shipwreck true boat marinearchitecture+engneering greatlakes boatingdisater capsizing

2008-03-17

  by awalls37 & 2 users

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Type: educational

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Status: to read

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Author: Walter Isaacson

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Tags: history biography american historical colonial franklin

2008-02-27

  by ldelaney

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Type: fiction

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Author: Charles Fishman

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Tags: american business america nonfiction overrated true Walmart

2008-02-07

  by ldelaney & 70 users

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Type: fiction

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Author: Ayn Rand

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Tags: women psychology fiction art american classic philosophy america literature novel objectivism aynrand

2007-11-27

  by flashgordon

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Type: scientific

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Peter N. Jones

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Tags: american great native spirit americans, indians, basin, cave, clovis, folsom holocene, indigenous, kennewick man, nez paiute, perce, plateau, pleistocene, yakama,

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Description: In this eagerly awaited book, the cultural anthropologist Peter N. Jones brings fifteen yearsIn this eagerly awaited book, the cultural anthropologist Peter N. Jones brings fifteen years and over twenty-five projects to bear on one of the more controversial questions in contemporary American anthropology and American Indian studies. Are contemporary American Indian tribes of the American West culturally affiliated with the people who crossed over from Asia over 10,000 years ago? Have American Indians in the Plateau and Great Basin lived in their homeland for thousands of years as their oral traditions affirm? These are some of the questions he considers in Respect for the Ancestors.

In 1996 on the banks of the Columbia River a 9,300-year old skeleton was found that would become the impetus for the first legal assault on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The Kennewick Man, as it came to be called, put to test whether the American Indian tribes of the area were culturally affiliated with the skeleton as they claim and their oral traditions affirm, or whether the skeleton was affiliated with a people who are no longer present. At the same time, another 9,000-year old skeleton was found in the storage facility of the Nevada State Museum, where it had gone unnoticed for the past 50 years. Like the Kennewick Man, the Spirit Cave Mummy also brought to fore the question of cultural affiliation between contemporary American Indian tribes of the western Great Basin and those people who resided in the area during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene.

Cultural anthropologist Peter N. Jones tackles these contentious questions in this landmark study, Respect for the Ancestors. For the first time in a single work, the question of cultural affiliation between the present-day American Indians of the American West and the people of the distant past is examined using multiple lines of evidence. Out of this comprehensive study, a picture of continuous cultural evolution and adaptation between the peoples of the ancient past and those of the present-day emerges from the evidence. Further, important implications for the field of anthropology are discussed as a result of this benchmark study.

Anyone working in the American West or with American Indians and other indigenous cultures will benefit from this book....

2007-11-25

  by flashgordon

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Type: scientific

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Status: now reading

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Author: Peter N. Jones

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Tags: american native north America, anthropology, americans, indians, chromosome, genes, genetics, mtDNA, peopling tribes,

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Description: The field of molecular anthropology has grown in recent years with the advent of new methodologiesThe field of molecular anthropology has grown in recent years with the advent of new methodologies and theoretical assumptions. The field has been particularly insightful in helping understand the initial peopling of North America. In this book, Peter N. Jones discussed the field of molecular anthropology and its insights into the peopling of North America, examining in detail mtDNA and Y chromosome genetic data.

Written in a clear, readable fashion, the author gives an overview of the topic for researchers, graduate students, and other professionals who are interested in this exciting new area of inquiry and the possibilities it holds for such contentious issues as biological affiliation, the peopling of North America, and historic population movements....

2007-11-25

  by ldelaney

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Type: documentary

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Author: E. Jean Carroll

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Tags: humor american america gonzo nonfiction

2007-11-09