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  • Wisdom Sits in Places

    Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

    Winner of the 2001 J. I. Staley Prize from the School of American Research and the 1996 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Anthropological study of Apache concepts of geographical places and place names.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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Schooling the Symbolic Animal

    Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education

    This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive ... Leer más

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  • The Second Time Around

    de Keith Basso ...
    Every Thursday night the swinging couples mixed their mates... along with their martinis. But The Dreamers club, once joined, is hard to leave. ... Leer más

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  • Portraits of 'the Whiteman'

    Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache

    'The Whiteman' is one of the most powerful and pervasive symbols in contemporary American Indian cultures. Portraits of 'the Whiteman': linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache investigates a complex form of joking in which Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans and, by means of these characterizations, give audible voice and visible substance to their ... Leer más

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    Wisdom Sits in Places

    Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

    Narrado por Steven Jay Cohen ...

    Completo

    7 hora 14 minutos

    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 ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Western Apache Raiding and Warfare

    This is a remarkable series of personal narrations from Western Apaches before and just after the various agencies and sub-agencies were established. It also includes extensive commentary on weapons and traditions, with Apache words and phrases translated and complete annotation. ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Don't Let the Sun Step Over You

    A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860–1975

    When the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-school officials, and menacing mounted police, they knew that resistance to American authority would be foolish. But some Apache families did resist in the most basic way they could: they resolved to ... Leer más

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    The Mushroom at the End of the World

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    As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer ... Leer más

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    The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

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