Review of Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore Edited by Ray A. Williamson and Claire E. Farrer
This is a book for a wider audience than folklorists or anthropologists, though both will find substantive materials here for future research. It is a work that integrates a number of disciplinary perspectives-including ethnohistorical sources, archaeology, social theory, myth studies, religion and...
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ftunivnebraskali:oai:digitalcommons.unl.edu:greatplainsquarterly-2055 2023-11-12T04:27:26+01:00 Review of Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore Edited by Ray A. Williamson and Claire E. Farrer Irwin, Lee 1995-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/1056 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/2055/viewcontent/Irwin_GPQ_1995_Earth.pdf unknown DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/1056 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/2055/viewcontent/Irwin_GPQ_1995_Earth.pdf Great Plains Quarterly Other International and Area Studies text 1995 ftunivnebraskali 2023-10-30T10:47:12Z This is a book for a wider audience than folklorists or anthropologists, though both will find substantive materials here for future research. It is a work that integrates a number of disciplinary perspectives-including ethnohistorical sources, archaeology, social theory, myth studies, religion and ritual, and astronomy- with remarkable economy and focus. The editors, Ray Williamson (from the United States Congress's Office of Technological Assessment) and Claire Farrer (an anthropologist at California State University at Chico), have illustrated the depth and complexities of Native American "Blue Archaeoastronomy" as a source for enhancing our understanding of diverse mythic worlds. The volume's essays range from the southwestern Zuni, Mescalero Apache, Navajo, and the Yuma-Piman peoples of Agua Caliente, to the California Cahuilla and Ajumawi, to a rapid survey of the Northwest, including Quinalt, Kwakiutl, Bella Coola, Tlingit, and most cogently the Tsimshian. Blackfoot, Lakota, and Pawnee celestial lore are also discussed, and in the Northeast the Seneca and the Ojibwa. An essay on the Alabama rounds out the circle. Text tlingit Tsimshian Tsimshian* University of Nebraska-Lincoln: DigitalCommons@UNL Alabama Williamson ENVELOPE(-65.383,-65.383,-67.717,-67.717) |
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