Four Hills of Life - Northern Arapaho Knowledge and Life Movement

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey D. Anderson Klappentext For more than a century! the Northern Arapaho people have lived on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming--the fourth largest reservation in the country. In "The Four Hills of Life!" Jeffrey D. Anderson masterfully draws together aspects of the Northern Arapahos' world--myth! language! art! ritual! identity! and history--to offer a vivid picture of a culture that has endured and changed over time. Anderson shows that Northern Arapaho unity and identity from the nineteenth century on derive primarily from a shared system of ritual practices that transmit vital cultural knowledge. He also provides an in-depth study of the problems that Euro-American society continues to impose on reservation life and of the responses of the Northern Arapahos. Zusammenfassung For more than a century! the Northern Arapaho people lived on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming - the fourth largest reservation in the country. This book draws together aspects of the Northern Arapahos' world - myth! language! art! ritual! identity! and history - to offer a vivid picture of a culture that has endured and changed over time. Inhaltsverzeichnis IllustrationsContemporary Arapaho OrthographyPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Northern Arapahos2. The Approach3. Arapaho Persons and Relations4. The Space and Time of Life Movement5. Childhood6. The Men's Age-Grade System7. Old Age and the End of Life8. Women and Life Movement9. A Total View of Life Movement10. Changes in Age Structure and Life Movement11. Arapaho Knowledge12. Euro-American Knowledge13. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey D Anderson, Jeffrey D. Anderson
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780803260214
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6021-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in the Anthropology of; Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians; Studies in the Anthropology of
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore