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American Indian Autobiography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

American Indian Autobiography

American Indian Autobiography is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and Hollywood Indians, spiritualists, visionaries, mothers, fathers, and English professors. Many of these narratives are as-told-to autobiographies, and those who labored to set them down in writing are nearly as diverse as their subjects. Black Elk had a poet for his amanuensis; Maxidiwiac, a Hidatsa farmer who worked her fields with a bone-blade hoe, had an anthropologist. Two Leggings, the man who led the last Crow war party, speaks to us thr...

Figures in a Renaissance Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Figures in a Renaissance Context

Essays on many of the most important literary figures of the 16th and 17th centuries

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1000

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature

Over 15 years in the making, an unprecedented one-volume reference work. Many of today's students and teachers of literature, lacking a familiarity with the Bible, are largely ignorant of how Biblical tradition has influenced and infused English literature through the centuries. An invaluable research tool. Contains nearly 800 encyclopedic articles written by a distinguished international roster of 190 contributors. Three detailed annotated bibliographies. Cross-references throughout.

Ethnicity and Self-identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Ethnicity and Self-identity

Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 28 contains five original articles exploring topics ranging from medieval ethnicity and self-identity to little-known documents in fifteenth century Italy. In addition to the articles, fourteen review notices examine recent publications in medieval and early modern studies.

Between Indian and White Worlds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Between Indian and White Worlds

Cultural boundaries exist wherever cultures encounter one another. During centuries of contact between native peoples and others in America, countless intermediaries–artists, students, traders, interpreters, political figures, authors, even performers–have bridged the divide. Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker provides a new understanding of the role of these mediation in North America from 1690 to the present. Cultural brokers have shared certain qualities–in particular a thorough understanding of two of more cultures. Living on the edge of change and conflict, they have responded to evolving and unstable circumstances or alliances with a flexibility born of their de...

Born a Chief
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Born a Chief

A memoir of the Hopi chief's childhood during the last years of the nineteenth century recalls details of the Hopi religion; interactions with Anglos, including the author; his reaction to Christianity; and more. By the author of Hopi Dictionary. Simultaneous.

Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

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  • Published: 1998-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

While numerous classical dictionaries identify the figures and tales of Greek and Roman mythology, this reference book explains the allegorical significance attached to the myths by Medieval and Renaissance authors. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for the gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and places of classical myth and legend. Each entry includes a brief account of the myth, with reference to the Greek and Latin sources. The entry then discusses how Medieval and Renaissance commentators interpreted the myth, and how poets, dramatists, and artists employed the allegory in their art. Each entry includes a bibliography and the volume concludes with appendices and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

Manifest Manners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Manifest Manners

Gerald Vizenor counters the cultural notions of dominance, false representations, and simulations of absence, and, by documents, experience, and theories, secures a narrative presence of Native Americans.

Native American Life-history Narratives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Native American Life-history Narratives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

The author provides methods for the study of American Indian ethnographic texts and disputes some previous assumptions about the sources of the stories in Son of Old Man Hat.

A Cheyenne Voice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 553

A Cheyenne Voice

Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and significant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne people—much of it previously unavailable. A Cheyenne Voice contains the complete transcribed interviews conducted by anthropologist Margot Liberty with Northern Cheyenne elder John Stands In Timber (1882–1967). Recorded by Liberty in 1956–1959 when she was a schoolteacher on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana, the interviews were the basis of the well-known 1967 book Cheyenne Memories. While th...