Author: Time-Life BooksPublisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Pueblos beneath a turquoise sky, kindred tribes in a daunting land, in the realm of the Apache and Navajo.
People of the Desert
Author: Time-Life BooksPublisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Pueblos beneath a turquoise sky, kindred tribes in a daunting land, in the realm of the Apache and Navajo.
People of the Desert and Sea
Author: Richard Stephen FelgerPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816534756
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
"People of the Desert and Sea is one of those books that should not have to wait a generation or two to be considered a classic. A feast for the eye as well as the mind, this ethnobotany of the Seri Indians of Sonora represents the most detailed exploration of plant use by a hunting-and-gathering people to date. . . . Scholarship in the best sense of the term—precise without being pedantic, exhaustive without exhausting its readers."—Journal of Arizona History "To read and gaze through this elegantly illustrated book is to be exposed, as if through a work of science fiction, to an astonishing and unknown cultural world."—North Dakota Quarterly
The Desert People
Author: Ann Nolan ClarkPublisher: Viking Children's Books
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The History of the Peoples of the Eastern Desert
Author: Hans BarnardPublisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1938770587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
The last quarter century has seen extensive research on the ports of the Red Sea coast of Egypt, the road systems connecting them to the Nile, and the mines and quarries in the region. Missing has been a systematic study of the peoples of the Eastern Desert--the area between the Red Sea and the Nile Valley--in whose territories these ports, roads, mines, and quarries were located. The historical overview of the Eastern Desert in the shape of a roughly chronological narrative presented in this book fills that gap. The multidisciplinary perspective focuses on the long-term history of the region. The extensive range of topics addressed includes specific historical periods, natural resources, nomadic survival strategies, ancient textual data, and the interaction between Christian hermits and their neighbors. The breadth of perspective does not sacrifice depth, for all authors deal in some detail with the specifics of their subject matter. As a whole, this collection provides an outline of the history and sociology of the Eastern Desert unparalleled in any language for its comprehensiveness. As such, it will be the essential starting point for future research on the Eastern Desert. Includes a CD of eleven audio files with music of the Ababda Nomads, and six short videos of Ababda culture.
The Conquest of the Desert
Author: Carolyne R. LarsonPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826362087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (1878–1885) has marked Argentina’s historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation’s “Golden Age” of progress, modernity, and—most contentiously—national whiteness and the “invisibilization” of Indigenous peoples. This traditional narrative has deeply influenced the ways in which many Argentines understand their nation’s history, its laws and policies, and its cultural heritage. As such, the Conquest has shaped debates about the role of Indigenous peoples within Argentina in the past and present. The Conquest of the Desert brings together scholars from across disciplines to offer an interdisciplinary examination of the Conquest and its legacies. This collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights through essays that reexamine one of Argentina’s most important historical periods.
Gathering the Desert
Author: Gary Paul NabhanPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816510146
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw
Desert Peoples
Author: Peter VethPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405137533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core deserts of Africa Examines the key concepts vital to understanding human adaptation to marginal landscapes and the behavioral and belief systems that underpin them Explores the relationship among desert hunter-gatherers, herders, and pastoralists
Desert Indian Woman
Author: Frances Sallie ManuelPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816520084
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Basket weaver, storyteller, and tribal elder, Frances Manuel is a living preserver of Tohono O'odham culture. Speaking to anthropologist Deborah Neff, who has known her for over twenty years, she tells of O'odham culture and society and of the fortunes and misfortunes of Native Americans in the southwestern borderlands over the past century.
Sharing the Desert
Author: Winston P. EricksonPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 081654672X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This book marks the culmination of fifteen years of collaboration between the University of Utah's American West Center and the Tohono O'oodham Nation's Education Department to collect documents and create curricular materials for use in their tribal school system. . . . Erickson has done an admirable job compiling this narrative.—Pacific Historical Review
Desert Dwellers
Author: Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
An informative text and striking full-color photos introduce readers to the various native peoples of the American Southwest. From the Hopi, Pueblo and Apache to the Pima and the Navajo, learn the spiritual and cultural connections and the importance of tradition and community to the Indian groups in this region.