This text offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. The author demonstrates how themes within native traditions connect with each other while upholding the integrity of individual traditions.
Indigenous invasions: Mexicans & Maya from Teotihuacan to Tollan -- Templates of conquest: warfare & alliance in the shadow of Tenochtitlan -- Indian conquistadors: conquest & settlement in Central America -- The primacy of place: ciudad vieja as Indian town & colonial altepetl …
Using a broad comparative approach combined with a theoretical diversity, this volume employs a range of case studies to address the importance of the community in understanding ancient societies.
"This monumental work, a blending of archeology and history, is the most thorough study of De Soto's expedition produced since the 1930s. For the first time De Soto's journey can be laid on a map and tied to specific archeological sites"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 5…
The author examines the problems and exchanges that resulted from the encounter between native people and European settlers in the Americas between 1492 and 1800.
Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of property, a system of banking, and a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology. Some researchers even claim to have discovered traces of the potlatch in all the economies of t…
Collection of 20 papers on contemporary Indian and Inuit art in Canada, on the occasion of the first major retrospective exhibition on the theme, in 1988-1989. Includes an overview of the evolution of native art, regional styles, individual artists and the variety of media.
Collection of 20 papers on contemporary Indian and Inuit art in Canada, on the occasion of the first major retrospective exhibition on the theme, in 1988-1989. Includes an overview of the evolution of native art, regional styles, individual artists and the variety of media.
"Departing from the traditional confines of the history of American Indians, Gregory Evans Dowd carefully draws on ethnographic sources to recapture the beliefs, thoughts, and actions of four principal Indian nations--Delaware, Shawnee, Cherokee, and Creek. The result is a sensi…