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Ainu
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Ainu

"Some 55 scholars, mostly Japanese but with a considerable number from the US and Europe, write about the ethnicity, theories of origin, history, economies, art, religious beliefs, mythology, and other aspects of the culture of the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, now principally found in Hokkaido and smaller far northern islands. Hundreds of photographs and paintings, mostly in excellent quality color, show a wide variety of Ainu people, as well as clothing, jewelry, and various artifacts."--"Choice". "The most in-depth treatise available on Ainu prehistory, material culture, and ethnohistory." - "Library Journal".--Amazon.com (2001 ed, book description).

Narwhal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

Narwhal

"This book is the companion to the exhibit, "Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend" at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, opening August 2017."-- Verso of title page.

Gateways
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Gateways

This book documents the L. M. Waugh collection of early 19th century photographs of Yupik people from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, with identifications and commentary by their modern descendants.

Northern Light
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Northern Light

The communal spirit of the North leads to a reexamination of the destructive behaviors of dominant cultures.

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

  • Categories: Art

Presents the untold story of Mongolia and its people, utilizing the latest results of research in archaeology, forensics, history, art, and literature, in a book whose clear prose, beautiful design, and wide-ranging illustraitos will fascinate general readers as well as scholars.

Crossroads of Continents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Crossroads of Continents

Series of papers by various scholars under the headings: Peoples of Siberia and Alaska; Strangers arrive; Crosscurrents of time; Thematic views; New lives for ancient peoples. Illustrated by artifacts from many museums which were part of an exhibition of the same name.

The Southern Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 446

The Southern Past

Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. Indeed, today's controversies over flying the Confederate flag, renaming schools and streets, and commemorating the Civil War and the civil rights movement are only the latest examples of this ongoing divisive contest over issues of regional identity and heritage. The Southern Past argues that these battles are ultimately about who has the power to determine what we remember of the past, and whether that remembrance will honor all Southerners or only select groups. For more than a century after the Civil War, elite white Southerners systematically refined a version of the past that sanctione...

Inua
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Inua

Book to accompany an exhibition of Bering Sea Eskimo art collected by Edward William Nelson and now housed in the Dept. of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Places their life in a regional and chronological framework.

Under Sentence of Death
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Under Sentence of Death

From the assembled work of fifteen leading scholars emerges a complex and provocative portrait of lynching in the American South. With subjects ranging in time from the late antebellum period to the early twentieth century, and in place from the border states to the Deep South, this collection of essays provides a rich comparative context in which to study the troubling history of lynching. Covering a broad spectrum of methodologies, these essays further expand the study of lynching by exploring such topics as same-race lynchings, black resistance to white violence, and the political motivations for lynching. In addressing both the history and the legacy of lynching, the book raises importan...