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The Ten Grandmothers
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Author : Alice Lee Marriott
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1945
The Ten Grandmothers written by Alice Lee Marriott and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Social Science categories.
?Once in a blue moon (which means a fairly long cycle in my case) one who deals professionally with new books comes upon something that seems to him truly noteworthy and memorable-a reading experience which he will cherish for the rest of his life. And when this book is original and, indeed, unique-when it achieves something that has never been done before-one's impulse is to rent a billboard, to hire a hall, in some way to underline and emphasize the excitement and enthusiasm of his discovery, so that other readers may share his pleasure. "This has been my experience with The Ten Grandmothers, by Alice Marriott. It was the custom of certain tribes of Indians of the Great Plains to keep a 'winter count,' or calendar, of important events. Each year an officially designated scribe or historian of the tribe inscribed on a specially selected and prepared buffalo hide (which was a sacred tribal possession) a colored pictograph commemorating the most noteworthy event of the year-the happening or circumstance for which the year would be remembered in the oral literature and traditions of the tribe. "Miss Marriott's book is based upon such a tribal history of the Kiowas, an important and tenacious nation of the southern Great Plains, for more than a hundred years. She has taken representative incidents from this story and built each into a unified narrative of personal experience, concrete and dramatic. The thirty-three narratives fall into four groups reflecting the major phases of Kiowa history in the last century; they are called, since Kiowa .economy was based on the buffalo, The Time When There Were Plenty of Buffalo; The Time When Buffalo Were Going; The Time When Buffalo Were Gone; and Modern Times. Since the same characters appear recurringly, the book has the effect of a loosely constructed novel. "Miss Marriott is an ethnologist. Her book is based on eight years of work with the Kiowas?work that certainly consisted of much more than superficial interviews with aged Indians. There is evidence everywhere, not only of accurate scientific knowledge of the material to be presented, but of profound human insight and understanding. "Miss Marriott is also a creative artist of extraordinary powers. Her book has abundant humor, drama and melodrama, beauty and sordidness, pathos and tragedy: all presented sharply, objectively, with economy, restraint, and dignity. The narrative of the long journey of Wooden Lance, to see for himself and for his tribe whether the leader of the Ghost Dance movement (that inspired the last desperate, irrational struggle of the plains Indians against the whites) had 'true power is unforgettable in its simplicity and reality. The story of the Kiowa girl Leah's return from her years at a boarding school in the East to her family on the reservation is as true and socially significant as it is poignant and dramatic. "The great achievement of Miss Marriott's book is that it makes accessible to the reader of today the essence of a culture, a way of life and thought, now almost vanished from the earth. "We have an uneasy feeling that some special meaning and value for Americans of today and tomorrow must lie in the older cultures of our continent which our own has so largely displaced. American writers from Longfellow on have tried with varying degrees of success to capture that meaning for us. "Miss Marriott's book shows that our feeling was justified. No discerning reader will fail to find in the men and women who are so vivid in its pages-Sitting Bear and Eagle Plume, old Quanah and Spear Woman, and the Kiowa boys riding in their jeep to enlist for the present World War-in their vision and knowledge of life and their essential experience, abundant meaning for today."
The Ten Grandmothers
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Author : Alice Lee Marriott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
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The Ten Grandmothers Epic Of The Kiowas
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Author : ALICE. MARRIOTT
language : en
Publisher:
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The Ten Grandmothers Epic Of The Kiowas written by ALICE. MARRIOTT and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Ten Grandmothers By Alice Marriott
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Author : Alice Marriott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
The Ten Grandmothers By Alice Marriott written by Alice Marriott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Kiowa Indians categories.
The Ten Grandmothers
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Author : Alice Lee Marriott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
The Ten Grandmothers written by Alice Lee Marriott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Kiowa Indians categories.
Karen S Grandmothers Baby Sitters Little Sister 10
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Author : Ann M. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2016-03-29
Karen S Grandmothers Baby Sitters Little Sister 10 written by Ann M. Martin and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! When Karen adopts a grandmother from Stoneybrook Manor, she has more grandmas than anyone she knows -- five! Karen thinks that is very special. But Karen's new grandmother is so different! Grandma B makes Karen listen to old music. And she teaches Karen funny dances, like the foxtrot. Are five grandmothers too many for Karen?
Their Own Frontier
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Author : Shirley A. Leckie
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Their Own Frontier written by Shirley A. Leckie and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Biographers describe the struggles and contributions of female scholars researching Indians of the American West in the early 1900s.
Kiowa Belief And Ritual
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Author : Benjamin R. Kracht
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2017-07
Kiowa Belief And Ritual written by Benjamin R. Kracht and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07 with Religion categories.
Directed by anthropologist Alexander Lesser in 1935, the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology sponsored a field school in southwestern Oklahoma that focused on the neighboring Kiowas. During two months, graduate students compiled more than 1,300 pages of single-spaced field notes derived from cross-interviewing thirty-five Kiowas. These eyewitness and first-generation reflections on the horse and buffalo days are undoubtedly the best materials available for reconstructing pre-reservation Kiowa beliefs and rituals. The field school compiled massive data resulting in a number of publications on this formerly nomadic Plains tribe, though the planned collaborative ethnographies never materialized. The extensive Kiowa field notes, which contain invaluable information, remained largely unpublished until now. In Kiowa Belief and Ritual, Benjamin R. Kracht reconstructs Kiowa cosmology during the height of the horse and buffalo culture from field notes pertaining to cosmology, visions, shamans, sorcery, dream shields, tribal bundles, and the now-extinct Sun Dance ceremony. These topics are interpreted through the Kiowa concept of a power force permeating the universe. Additional data gleaned from the field notes of James Mooney and Alice Marriott enrich the narrative. Drawing on more than thirty years of field experiences, Kracht’s discussion of how Indigenous notions of “power” are manifested today significantly enhances the existing literature concerning Plains religions.
Celebrating Grandmothers
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Author : Ann Richardson
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2014-08-12
Celebrating Grandmothers written by Ann Richardson and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-12 with Family & Relationships categories.
THE book for grandmothers about grandmothers and by grandmothersBecoming a grandmother is both exciting and challenging. In this book, 27 women describe - in their own words - how they responded to the many new pleasures and demands of being a grandmother. You will read about how their new role changed the texture of their lives, their family relationships and their sense of themselves. Whether you find that being a grandmother is a source of great joy - or of some pain due to sheer distance or family problems - it will speak to you. And you will gain many good ideas about how to do the best for both your adult children and your grandchildren.Note to parents of babies or young children - an excellent and original present for new and experienced grandmothers alike.'A book to warm your heart about being a grandparent, and also one to reassure you that you're not alone when you experience new relationships and complex family patterns.'Virginia Ironside, agony aunt and novelist 'Confirms, in a direct and delightful way, just how special the grandmother-grandchild relationship is....Very interesting and heart-warming'Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, author of The Good Granny Guide
Grandparenting Practices Around The World
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Author : Timonen, Virpi
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2020-05-13
Grandparenting Practices Around The World written by Timonen, Virpi and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-13 with Social Science categories.
This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren. The book contains analyses of topics that have so far received relatively little attention, such as transnational grandparenting and gender differences in grandparenting practices. It is the only collection that brings together theory-driven research on grandparenting from a wide variety of cultural and welfare state contexts - including chapters on Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia - drawing broad lines of debate rather than focusing at a country level. Building on the success of ‘Contemporary grandparenting’, edited by Virpi Timonen and Sarah Arber, this book further deepens our understanding of how social structures continue to shape grandparenting across a wide range of cultural and economic contexts. The book is essential reading and reference for researchers, students and policy-makers who want to understand the growing influence of grandparents in ageing families and societies across the world.