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Western Apache Language And Culture
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Author : Keith H. Basso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-03
Western Apache Language And Culture written by Keith H. Basso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-03 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Examines the importance of symbol in the Western Apache language, explaining how such elements as place names, metaphor, and the use of silence define Apache culture.
The Aztec Kings
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Author : Susan D. Gillespie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Aztec Kings written by Susan D. Gillespie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Scholars have long viewed histories of the Aztecs either as flawed chronologies plagued by internal inconsistencies and intersource discrepancies or as legends that indiscriminately mingle reality with the supernatural. But this new work draws fresh conclusions from these documents, proposing that Aztec dynastic history was recast by its sixteenth-century recorders not merely to glorify ancestors but to make sense out of the trauma of conquest and colonialism. The Aztec Kings is the first major study to take into account the Aztec cyclical conception of time--which required that history constantly be reinterpreted to achieve continuity between past and present--and to treat indigenous historical traditions as symbolic statements in narrative form. Susan Gillespie focuses on the dynastic history of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, whose stories reveal how the Aztecs used "history" to construct, elaborate, and reify ideas about the nature of rulership and the cyclical nature of the cosmos, and how they projected the Spanish conquest deep into the Aztec past in order to make history accommodate that event. By demonstrating that most of Aztec history is nonliteral, she sheds new light on Aztec culture and on the function of history in society. By relating the cyclical structure of Aztec dynastic history to similar traditions of African and Polynesian peoples, she introduces a broader perspective on the function of history in society and on how and why history must change.
Wisdom Sits In Places
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Author : Keith H. Basso
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 1996-08-01
Wisdom Sits In Places written by Keith H. Basso and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-01 with Social Science categories.
This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people. Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or home or literature. Our senses of place, however, come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures. Wisdom Sits in Places, the first sustained study of places and place-names by an anthropologist, explores place, places, and what they mean to a particular group of people, the Western Apache in Arizona. For more than thirty years, Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names--where they come from and what they mean to Apaches. "This is indeed a brilliant exposition of landscape and language in the world of the Western Apache. But it is more than that. Keith Basso gives us to understand something about the sacred and indivisible nature of words and place. And this is a universal equation, a balance in the universe. Place may be the first of all concepts; it may be the oldest of all words."--N. Scott Momaday "In Wisdom Sits in Places Keith Basso lifts a veil on the most elemental poetry of human experience, which is the naming of the world. In so doing he invests his scholarship with that rarest of scholarly qualities: a sense of spiritual exploration. Through his clear eyes we glimpse the spirit of a remarkable people and their land, and when we look away, we see our own world afresh."--William deBuys "A very exciting book--authoritative, fully informed, extremely thoughtful, and also engagingly written and a joy to read. Guiding us vividly among the landscapes and related story-tellings of the Western Apache, Basso explores in a highly readable way the role of language in the complex but compelling theme of a people's attachment to place. An important book by an eminent scholar."--Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
The Cibecue Apache
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Author : Keith H. Basso
language : en
Publisher: Waveland Press
Release Date : 1986-02-01
The Cibecue Apache written by Keith H. Basso and has been published by Waveland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-02-01 with Social Science categories.
Cultural anthropologist Keith H. Basso (1940–2013) was noted for his long-term research of the Western Apaches, specifically those from the modern community of Cibecue, Arizona, the site of his ethnographic and linguistic research for fifty-four years. One of his earliest works, The Cibecue Apache, has now been read by generations of students. It captures the true character of Apache culture not only because of its objective analyses and descriptions but also because of the author’s belief in allowing the people to speak for themselves. Basso learned their language, became a trusted friend and intimate, and returned to the field often to gather data, participate, and observe. Basso’s goal in this now-classic work is to describe Cibecue Apache perceptions, experiences, conflicts, and indecision. A primary aim is to depict portions of the Western Apache belief system, especially those dealing with the supernatural. Emphasis is also given to the girls’ puberty ceremony, its meaning and functions, as well as modern Apache economic and political life.
Western Apache Language And Culture
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Author : Keith H. Basso
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1992-07-01
Western Apache Language And Culture written by Keith H. Basso and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Examines the importance of symbol in the Western Apache language, explaining how such elements as place names, metaphor, and the use of silence define Apache culture.
Western Apache Witchcraft
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Author : Keith H. Basso
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1969-05
Western Apache Witchcraft written by Keith H. Basso and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969-05 with Social Science categories.
An ethnographic contribution describing the beliefs and ideas associated with witchcraft as shared "knowledge" that the Apaches have about their universe. Uncovers the types of interpersonal relationships with which witchcraft accusations are regularly associated and posits explanations for these associations.
Portraits Of The Whiteman
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Author : Keith H. Basso
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1979-08-31
Portraits Of The Whiteman written by Keith H. Basso and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-08-31 with History categories.
Drawing on current theory in symbolic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this interpretive essay investigates a complex form of joking based on material collected in a Western Apache community wherein Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans.
Lessons From Fort Apache
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Author : M. Eleanor Nevins
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2024
Lessons From Fort Apache written by M. Eleanor Nevins 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 2024 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Lessons from Fort Apache is an ethnography of Indigenous language dynamics on the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona with North American and global implications concerning language endangerment. Moving beyond a narrow focus on linguistic documentation, M. Eleanor Nevins examines how the linguistics and cultural identities of Indigenous populations are attributed with meaning against other sociocultural concerns and interests. While affirming the value of language documentation and maintenance, Nevins also provides a much-needed appraisal of the potential conflicts in authority claims and language practices between community members and the educators and scholars who research their linguistic heritage. Nevins argues that the debates surrounding the revitalization of Indigenous languages need broadening to include larger questions of social mediation, shifting cultural identities, and the politics intrinsic to the relationship between Indigenous community members and university-accredited experts such as language researchers and educators. This engaging ethnography examines these questions and investigates the language dynamics of the Fort Apache Reservation, including the unintended challenges that standardized textual models sometimes pose to local interests. Nevins reveals the community’s historical and contemporary concerns for language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. Lessons from Fort Apache demonstrates the need for language maintenance programs and for flexibility in finding politically sustainable forms of collaboration and exchange between researchers, teachers, and those community members who base their claims to an Indigenous language in alternate terms.
Western Apache Material Culture
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Author : Alan Ferg
language : fr
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1987-05
Western Apache Material Culture written by Alan Ferg and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-05 with Art categories.
This volume describes in detail two collections of Western Apache artifacts from east-central Arizona. The materials, belonging to the Arizona State Museum, range in age from the mid-1800's to the present and represent a thorough cross-section of tools, clothing, religious paraphernalia, and games.
A Practical Grammar Of The San Carlos Apache Language
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Author : Willem Joseph de Reuse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
A Practical Grammar Of The San Carlos Apache Language written by Willem Joseph de Reuse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Foreign Language Study categories.