The Four Hills of Life: Northern Arapaho Knowledge and Life Movement
For more than a century, the Northern Arapaho people have lived on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming--the fourth largest reservation in the country. In The Four Hills of Life, Jeffrey D. Anderson masterfully draws together aspects of the Northern Arapahos' world--myth, language, art, ritual, identity, and history--to offer a vivid picture of a culture that has endured and changed over time. Anderson shows that Northern Arapaho unity and identity from the nineteenth century on derive primarily from a shared system of ritual practices that transmit vital cultural knowledge. He also provides an in-depth study of the problems that Euro-Americ…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8032-6021-4
- EAN: 9780803260214
- Produktnummer: 3001516
- Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 358 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.9 cm 503 g
- Gewicht: 503
Über den Autor
Jeffrey D. Anderson is an associate professor of anthropology at Colby College and the author of One Hundred Years of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life Story (Nebraska 2003).
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