The Amerindian
DOWNLOAD
Download The Amerindian PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Amerindian book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Amerindian
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Amerindian written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Indians of North America categories.
The Amerindian
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??
The Amerindian written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 19?? with Indians of North America categories.
The Amerindians In Guyana 1803 1873
DOWNLOAD
Author : Mary Noel Menezes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-30
The Amerindians In Guyana 1803 1873 written by Mary Noel Menezes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-30 with History categories.
These selected documents reveal the reaction and responses of the Amerindians to European values.
Guyana Legends
DOWNLOAD
Author : Odeen Ishmael
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-08-30
Guyana Legends written by Odeen Ishmael and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-30 with Fiction categories.
Guyana Legends—Folk Tales of the Indigenous Amerindians By Odeen Ishmael G uyana Legends—Folk Tales of the Indigenous Amerindians is a collection of fifty folk tales of the first people to inhabit Guyana and the contiguous regions of the north coast of the South American continent. Very little is known of Amerindian history in Guyana before the arrival of European settlers in the early seventeenth century and, actually, no written form of their languages existed until about seventy years ago. Indeed, much of the history of the Amerindians people is based on oral traditions which are not quite clear because the periods when important events occurred are difficult to place. Still, native oral traditions are very rich in folk stories of the ancestral heroes and heroines of these indigenous people. Some of these folk stories have varying versions among the nine different language groups—or tribes— that comprise the Amerindian population of Guyana. Such a difference is illustrated in this book which presents two different tales of how fire was acquired and various versions of the legend of two immortal folk heroes, the bothers Makonaima and Pia. This present collection of Amerindian legends was compiled over a lengthy period of many years during which I listened to and collected versions of these tales from elderly Amerindians in various regions of Guyana, and more recently from Amerindian residents of the Delta Amacuro region of Venezuela, on the frontier with Guyana. Significantly, most of these legends were also summarised since the late nineteenth century by a succession of writers, including Everard F. im Thurn, W.H. Brett, Walter Roth and Leonard Lambert. But it is significant to note that those versions—by no means original—which were related by those writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have undergone some changes with the passing years, and new characters have been added to them. Since Amerindians of the North West District of Guyana are ethnologically and culturally related to those in the eastern regions of Venezuela, particularly the Delta Amacuro region, it is noteworthy that the myths and legends of those Venezuelan Amerindians bear close similarities to those of their Guyanese counterparts. Interestingly, the Guajiro people—Amerindians of Arawak background living in north-west Venezuela near to Lake Maracaibo—also have some folk-tales that closely resemble those of their “relatives” living in the North-West District of Guyana and the Delta Amacuro region of Venezuela. For further information, the writings of Venezuelan researchers, Cesaréo de Armellada, Maria Manuela de Cora and Michel Perrin are recommended. It is essential to note too that an important character in Amerindian legend is “Tiger”. While there are a number of tigers in the stories—and generally they are all villains—these animals, however, are not part of the fauna in Guyana or the entire American continent. What is generally referred to as a “tiger” is the large spotted jaguar. And the “black tiger”, mentioned in one of the stories in this book, is the large South American puma. Twenty of the folk tales included in this collection appear in my earlier book, Amerindian Legends of Guyana, published in 1995. However, they have now been revised and, in some cases, retitled. Among the thirty other stories are those of two clever tricksters in Amerindian folklore, the lazy but sly Konehu and the wily rabbit, Koneso. Readers will find these legends of the original inhabitants of Guyana informative in the anthropological sense, in addition to being interesting and entertaining at the same time.
The Indians Of Central And South America
DOWNLOAD
Author : James S. Olson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1991-06-17
The Indians Of Central And South America written by James S. Olson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-06-17 with History categories.
At a juncture in history when much interest and attention is focused on Central and South American political, ecological, social, and environmental concerns, this dictionary fills a major gap in reference materials relating to Amerindian tribes. This one-volume reference collects important information about the current status of the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and offers a chronology of the conquest of the Amerindian tribes; a list of tribes by country; and an extensive bibliography of surviving American Indian groups. Historical as well as contemporary descriptions of approximately 500 existing tribes or groups of people are provided along with several bibliographic citations at the conclusion of each entry. The focus of the volume is on those Indian groups that still maintain a sense of tribal identity. For the vast majority of his entries, James S. Olson draws material from the Smithsonian Institution's seven-volume Handbook of South American Indians as well as other classic resources of a broad, general nature. Much attention is also focused on the complicated question of South American languages and on the definition of what constitutes an Indian. Olson's introduction cites dozens of valuable reference works relating to these topics. Following the introduction, this survey of surviving Amerindians is divided into sections that contain entries for each existing tribe or group; an appendix listing tribes by country; the Amerindian conquest chronology; and a bibliographical essay. This unique reference work should be an important item for most public, college, and university libraries. It will be welcomed by reference librarians, historians, anthropologists, and their students.
Amerindians In Guyana 1803 1873
DOWNLOAD
Author : Mary Noel Menezes
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1979
Amerindians In Guyana 1803 1873 written by Mary Noel Menezes and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Indians categories.
The Amerindian Heritage
DOWNLOAD
Author : Denis Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Amerindian Heritage written by Denis Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Indians of South America categories.
Non Humans In Amerindian South America
DOWNLOAD
Author : Juan Javier Rivera Andía
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-06-10
Non Humans In Amerindian South America written by Juan Javier Rivera Andía and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-10 with Religion categories.
Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies – depicting non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music – explore the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms, increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current expressions of modernity into indigenous societies.
But Is It Human
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alberto Garcia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
But Is It Human written by Alberto Garcia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Human beings categories.
Conquest And Reclamation In The Transatlantic Imagination
DOWNLOAD
Author : Luz Elena Ramirez
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-30
Conquest And Reclamation In The Transatlantic Imagination written by Luz Elena Ramirez and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how these accounts inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith. The revision of history in the Amerindian adventure both entertained young transatlantic audiences and was a vehicle to attract tourism and investment in countries such as Mexico and Peru. Henty, Haggard, and Griffith, moreover, used their tales of adventure as a platform to impart British values to their readers. Such values compel the characters and narrators of the novels discussed to act as cultural mediators, to acquire indigenous languages and adopt native ways of being, and, in several of the romance adventures under consideration, to marry Mexican or Incan noblewomen. Part I, Conquest, examines George Henty’s By Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez in Mexico (1891), H. Rider Haggard’s Montezuma’s Daughter (1893), and George Griffith’s Virgin of the Sun: A Tale of the Conquest of Peru (1898). Part II, Reclamation, argues that English re-writings of history work to eclipse the Spanish in Haggard’s Virgin the Sun (1922), Henty’s Treasure of the Incas (1902) and Griffith’s Romance of Golden Star (1897).