Reading the Wampum - Essays on Hodinoehsoe:ni'' Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery

Informationen zum Autor Penelope Myrtle Kelsey is professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Worldviews. Klappentext Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum” to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. In Reading the Wampum, Kelsey provides the first academic consideration of the ways in which these sacred belts are reinterpreted into current Haudenosaunee tradition.

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Penelope Myrtle Kelsey is professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Worldviews

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• Authors: Penelope Kelsey, Penelope Myrtle Kelsey
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2014
• EAN: 9780815633662
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3366-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors; The Iroquois and Their Neighbors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories