Wisdom Sits in Places

• Author : Keith H. Basso
• Publisher : UNM Press
• Release : 27 February 1996

Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.

• Author : Keith H. Basso
• Publisher : UNM Press
• Release : 01 August 1996

This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people. Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather carelessly when

• Author : Keith H. Basso
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 27 February 1996

Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.

• Author : Eva Tulene Watt
• Publisher : University of Arizona Press
• Release : 27 February 2021

When the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-school officials, and menacing mounted police, they knew that resistance to American authority would be foolish. But some Apache families did resist in the most basic way they could: they resolved to endure. Although Apache history has inspired numerous works by non-Indian authors, Apache people themselves have been reluctant to

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Thunder Bay Press
• Release : 27 February 1993

Text, illustrations and photographs present a history of the Apache Indians.

• Author : Don Kulick
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 24 April 1997

This book, first published in 1992, is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among the people of Gapun, a small community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea.

• Author : Barbra A. Meek
• Publisher : University of Arizona Press
• Release : 01 February 2012

For many communities around the world, the revitalization or at least the preservation of an indigenous language is a pressing concern. Understanding the issue involves far more than compiling simple usage statistics or documenting the grammar of a tongue—it requires examining the social practices and philosophies that affect indigenous language survival. In presenting the case of Kaska, an endangered language in an Athabascan community in the Yukon, Barbra Meek asserts that language revitalization requires more than just linguistic rehabilitation;

• Author : Julie Cruikshank
• Publisher : UBC Press
• Release : 01 October 2010

Do Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet, underwent significant geophysical change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which coincided with dramatic social upheaval resulting from European exploration and increased travel and trade among Aboriginal peoples. European visitors brought with them varying conceptions of nature as sublime, as spiritual,

• Author : Gary Witherspoon
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 27 February 1996

Sent by their vacationing parents to visit Mad Aunt Mabel, Perry and Ant have an adventure, while their younger siblings Sun Dance and Beany stay at home making burglar traps and searching for a magic sword.

• Author : Robert James Muckle
• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• Release : 27 February 2021

In this thoughtful book, Robert J. Muckle provides a brief, thematic overview of the key issues facing Indigenous peoples in North America from prehistory to the present.

• Author : Tim Cresswell
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 05 June 2013

This text introduces students of human geography to the fundamentalconcept of place, marrying everyday uses of the term with thecomplex theoretical debates that have grown up around it. A short introduction to one of the most fundamental concepts inhuman geography Marries everyday uses of the term "place" with the more complextheoretical debates that have grown up around it Makes the debates intelligible to students, using familiarstories as a way into more abstract ideas Excerpts and discusses key papers on place

• Author : Julie Cruikshank,Angela Sidney,Kitty Smith,Annie Ned
• Publisher : UBC Press
• Release : 27 February 1992

The life stories appearing in this volume come from communities where storytelling provides a customary framework for discussing the past. Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith and Annie Ned are three remarkable and gifted women of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry who were born in the southern Yukon Territory around the turn of the century. Their life stories tell us as much about the present as about the past, as much about ideas of community as about individual experience; they call our attention

• Author : Bear Heart
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 01 February 1998

Bridging the worlds of the traditional Native American and modern culture, the authors offer an inspiring and moving autobiography of a native American medicine man, one of the last to be trained in the ancient ways, and one of the few to teach nontribal people.

• Author : Joseph Errington
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 30 April 2010

Drawing on both original texts and critical literature,Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys the methods,meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around theworld. Explores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aidin overcoming practical and ideological difficulties of colonialrule Traces the uses and effects of colonial linguistic projects inthe shaping of identities and communities that were under, or inopposition to, imperial regimes Examines enduring influences of colonial linguistics incontemporary thinking about language and cultural difference Brings new

• Author : Paul Stoller
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 15 May 2009

It is the anthropologist’s fate to always be between things: countries, languages, cultures, even realities. But rather than lament this, anthropologist Paul Stoller here celebrates the creative power of the between, showing how it can transform us, changing our conceptions of who we are, what we know, and how we live in the world. Beginning with his early days with the Peace Corps in Africa and culminating with a recent bout with cancer, The Power of the Between is