Spirits of the Air - Birds and American Indians in the South

Informationen zum Autor SHEPARD KRECH III is a professor of anthropology and director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. He is a past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory and has been a fellow and trustee of the National Humanities Center. His many books include The Ecological Indian and Encyclopedia of World Environmental History . Klappentext Discusses the omnipresence of birds in Native American life. This book examines the complex and changeable influences of birds on the Native American world view. Zusammenfassung Krech, a renowned authority on Native American interactions with nature, examines the complex and changeable influences of birds on the Native American worldview. Indians adorned themselves with feathers, invoked avian powers in ceremonies and dances, and incorporated bird imagery on pottery, carvings, and jewelry.

Product details

• Authors: Shepard Krech, Shepard Krech III
• Assisted by: Paul Sutter (Editor), Paul S. Sutter (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2009
• EAN: 9780820328157
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2815-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Environmental History; Environmental History; Wormsloe Foundation Publication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous