Parámetros
- 184 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
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With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts of the indigenous people of North America, from the Inuit of the Canadian north to the Navajo of the American southwest.Beginning with a brief history of Native Americans, Larry Zimmerman and Brian Molyneaux explore individual culture areas, region by region. They discuss Native American spiritual observances, including personal and communal rituals, initiation rites, and curing ceremonies. Through descriptions of the powwow, rites of passage, plant rituals, oral storytelling, dreams, the ghost dance, and the drum, the authors provide a sensitive introduction to Native American spiritual traditions and examine issues that face Native Americans today.
Compra de libros
Native North America, Brian Leigh Molyneaux, Piers Vitebsky, Larry J. Zimmerman
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2008
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- Título
- Native North America
- Subtítulo
- Belief and Ritual, Spirits of Earth and Sky
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Editorial
- Duncan Baird Publishers
- Publicado en
- 2008
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 184
- ISBN10
- 1435106156
- ISBN13
- 9781435106154
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Historia, Antropología, Indios
- Calificación
- 3,95 de 5
- Descripción
- With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts of the indigenous people of North America, from the Inuit of the Canadian north to the Navajo of the American southwest.Beginning with a brief history of Native Americans, Larry Zimmerman and Brian Molyneaux explore individual culture areas, region by region. They discuss Native American spiritual observances, including personal and communal rituals, initiation rites, and curing ceremonies. Through descriptions of the powwow, rites of passage, plant rituals, oral storytelling, dreams, the ghost dance, and the drum, the authors provide a sensitive introduction to Native American spiritual traditions and examine issues that face Native Americans today.