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This analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans.

Navajo mythology --- Navajo Indians --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Diné Indians (Navajo) --- Navaho Indians --- Athapascan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Mythology, Navajo --- Religion --- Religion and mythology --- Navajo mythology. --- HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. --- Religion. --- american southwest. --- christianity. --- comparative religion studies. --- creation myth. --- good and evil. --- health rituals. --- herding. --- humanity. --- hunting and gathering society. --- indigenous peoples. --- internal historical conflict. --- judaism. --- native american culture. --- native american religion. --- native peoples. --- navajo creation myth. --- navajo narratives. --- navajo origin myth. --- navajo religion. --- navajo society. --- navajo. --- order and chaos. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- social organization. --- the underworlds. --- tricksters.

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An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more recent arrivals in flora and fauna, including human beings. Cosmology, geology, archeology, and population and environmental studies-all figure in David Christian's account, which is an ambitious overview of the emerging field of "Big History." Maps of Time opens with the origins of the universe, the stars and the galaxies, the sun and the solar system, including the earth, and conducts readers through the evolution of the planet before human habitation. It surveys the development of human society from the Paleolithic era through the transition to agriculture, the emergence of cities and states, and the birth of the modern, industrial period right up to intimations of possible futures. Sweeping in scope, finely focused in its minute detail, this riveting account of the known world, from the inception of space-time to the prospects of global warming, lays the groundwork for world history-and Big History-true as never before to its name.

Civilization --- Human evolution. --- World history. --- Philosophy. --- australian authors. --- big bang. --- biological sciences. --- biology. --- black holes. --- brain food. --- civilization. --- cosmology. --- creation myth. --- earth before humans. --- evolution. --- history first principles. --- history of our solar system. --- known world. --- mathematics and science. --- natural history. --- nature and ecology. --- nature. --- origins of universe. --- science nature. --- solar system. --- space sciences. --- space time. --- space. --- time. --- universe. --- why are we here. --- world history.

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"The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myth explains how they came into existence, the origin of their environment, and the significance of their oldest traditions. The Creation myth forms the backdrop against which much of the tribe's extensive oral literature may be understood. At one time there were almost as many different versions of the Quechan creation story as there were Quechan families. Now few people remember them. This volume, presented in the Quechan language with facing-column translation, provides three views of the origins of the Quechan people. One synthesizes narrator George Bryant's childhood memories and later research. The second is based upon J.P. Harrington's A Yuma Account of Origins (1908). The third provides a modern view of the origins of the Quechan, beginning with the migration from Asia to the New World and ending with the settlement of the Yuman tribes at their present locations. Publication of this book is made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Native American / Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program grant number MN-00-13-0025-13. This collection is for the Quechan people and will also interest linguists, anthropologists, oral literature specialists, and anyone curious about Native American culture."--Publisher's website.

Yuma Indians -- Folklore. --- Yuma Indians -- Origin. --- Yuma Indians --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- History --- Origin --- Yuma Indians. --- Origin. --- Cuchan Indians --- Cuichana Indians --- Cutgana Indians --- Kwichan Indians --- Quechan Indians --- Umea Indians --- Yutcana Indians --- Indians of North America --- Yuman Indians --- george bryant --- quechan language --- quechan people --- a yuma account of origins --- amy miller --- world oral literature series --- Cocopah --- Creation myth --- Noun phrase --- Prosody (linguistics) --- Rattlesnake --- Sanya

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To Weave and Sing is the first in-depth analysis of the rich spiritual and artistic traditions of the Carib-speaking Yekuana Indians of Venezuela, who live in the dense rain forest of the upper Orinoco. Within their homeland of Ihuruna, the Yekuana have succeeded in maintaining the integrity and unity of their culture, resisting the devastating effects of acculturation that have befallen so many neighboring groups. Yet their success must be attributed to more than natural barriers of rapids and waterfalls, to more than lack of "contact" with our "modern" world. The ethnographic history recounted here includes not only the Spanish discovery of the Yekuana but detailed indigenous accounts of the entire history of Yekuana contact with Western culture, revealing an adaptive technique of mythopoesis by which the symbols of a new and hostile European ideology have been consistently defused through their incorporation into traditional indigenous structures.The author's initial point of departure is the Watunna, the Yekuana creation epic, but he finds his principal entrance into this mythic world through basketry, focusing on the eleborate kinetic designs of the round waja baskets and the stories told about them. Guss argues that the problem of understanding Yekuana basketry is the problem of understanding all traditional art forms within a tribal context, and critiques the cultural assumptions inherent in our systems of classification. He demonstrates that the symbols woven into the baskets function not in isolation but collectively, as a powerful system cutting across the entire culture.To Weave and Sing addresses all Yekuana material culture and the greater reality it both incorporates and masks, discerning a unifying configuration of symbols in chapters on architectural forms, the geography of the body, and the use of herbs, face paints, and chants. A narrow view of slash-and-burn gardens as places of mere subsistence is challenged by Guss's portrait of these exclusively female spaces as systematic inversions of the male world, "the sacred turned on its head." Throughout, a wealth of narrative and ritual materials provides us with the closest approximation we have to a native exegesis of these phenomena. What we are offered here is a new Poetics of Culture, ethnography not as a static given but as a series of shifting fields, wherein culture (and our image of it) is constantly recreated in all of its parts, by all of its members.

Indian baskets --- Yecuana Indians --- Yecuana baskets. --- Baskets, Yecuana --- Baskets --- Cunuana Indians --- Dekuhana Indians --- Ihuruhana Indians --- Kunuhana Indians --- Maiongking Indians --- Maiongong Indians --- Makiritare Indians --- Maquiritare Indians --- Pawana Indians --- Soto Indians --- Yacuana Indians --- Yekuana Indians --- Yekuhana Indians --- Indians of South America --- Baskets, Indian --- Indians --- Religion. --- Basket making --- anthropology. --- basketry. --- carib. --- chants. --- creation myth. --- epic. --- ethnography. --- face paint. --- folk belief. --- folk tales. --- folklore. --- gardens. --- gender roles. --- gender. --- handicrafts. --- herbs. --- ihuruna. --- indian. --- indigenous culture. --- indigenous peoples. --- latin america. --- material culture. --- mythic world. --- mythology. --- mythopoetic. --- native peoples. --- nonfiction. --- orinoco. --- rainforest. --- religion. --- ritual. --- sacred. --- social science. --- sociology. --- south america. --- spain. --- spirituality. --- symbolism. --- tradition. --- traditional art. --- tribes. --- upper orinoco. --- venezuela. --- waja baskets. --- watunna. --- yekuana.

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A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the bodyIn this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a "living medium" that produces, perceives, or remembers images that are different from the images we encounter through handmade or technical pictures. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, An Anthropology of Images presents a challenging and provocative new account of what pictures are and how they function.The book demonstrates these ideas with a series of compelling case studies, ranging from Dante's picture theory to post-photography. One chapter explores the tension between image and medium in two "media of the body," the coat of arms and the portrait painting. Another, central chapter looks at the relationship between image and death, tracing picture production, including the first use of the mask, to early funerary rituals in which pictures served to represent the missing bodies of the dead. Pictures were tools to re-embody the deceased, to make them present again, a fact that offers a surprising clue to the riddle of presence and absence in most pictures and that reveals a genealogy of pictures obscured by Platonic picture theory.

Ethnology in art. --- Visual anthropology. --- Visual sociology. --- Alex Katz. --- Allegory. --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Anthropology of art. --- Anthropology of media. --- Antithesis. --- Aphorism. --- Archaeology. --- Art criticism. --- Art history. --- Art. --- Body image. --- Camera Work. --- Camera. --- Case study. --- Close-up. --- Coat of arms. --- Conceptual art. --- Consciousness. --- Countermovement. --- Creation myth. --- Creative work. --- Cultural anthropology. --- Cultural geography. --- Cultural heritage. --- Cultural history. --- Cultural memory. --- Dichotomy. --- Emblem. --- Emerging technologies. --- Escutcheon (heraldry). --- Explanation. --- Film theory. --- Fine art. --- Funerary art. --- Genre. --- Georges Bataille. --- Gudea. --- Historical anthropology. --- Historicity. --- Historiography. --- Human figure (aesthetics). --- Humanism. --- Humanities. --- Iconicity. --- Iconoclasm. --- Iconography. --- Iconology. --- Illustration. --- Imagery. --- Inference. --- Intentionality. --- Invention. --- Mark So. --- Masaccio. --- Medium theory. --- Mental image. --- Metaphor. --- Metonymy. --- Modernity. --- Necromancy. --- Neuromancer. --- On Photography. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Philosophy. --- Photogram. --- Photograph. --- Photography. --- Photojournalism. --- Physiognomy. --- Pictorialism. --- Pigment. --- Primitive culture. --- Primitivism. --- Propaganda. --- Provenance. --- Religious image. --- Reproducibility. --- Secularization. --- Semiotics. --- Sightline. --- Simulacrum. --- Social anthropology. --- Special effect. --- Special rights. --- Structural anthropology. --- Subtitle (captioning). --- Symptom. --- Technology. --- Terminology. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Uniqueness. --- Visual artifact. --- Visual arts. --- Visual culture. --- Visual rhetoric. --- Work of art. --- Writing.