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Stars above, earth below : American Indians and nature / edited by Marsha C. Bol.
LIBRA E98.P5 S73 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian philosophy--North America.
- Indian philosophy.
- Indians of North America--Science.
- Indians of North America.
- North America.
- Indians of North America--Religion.
- Human ecology--North America.
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Niwot, Colo. : Roberts Rinehart Publishers for Carnegie Museum of Natural History : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, [1998]
- Summary:
- This timely collection of essays describes how American Indians think about the natural world by examining the creation stories of the various Native groups, their rituals and myths, their hunting and farming methods, and their ways of using the gifts of Mother Earth. The essays examine six major themes, origin stories, astronomy, culture and landscape, animals, botany and nature. Photographs of American indians as they relate to the world around them and the exquisite artifacts that they crafted enhance the text.
- Dr. Marsha C. Bol. Associate Curator of Anthropology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History is an expert in the field of Native American arts with a specinlty in Lakota art and culture.
- Contents:
- Native American attitudes to the environment / N. Scott Momaday
- Distributed power: an overview. A theme in American Indian origin stories / Gregory Schrempp
- Tlingit origin stories / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
- Four American Indian origin stories: Lakota, Seneca, Jicarilla Apache, and Tlingit
- American Indian astronomy: an overview / Ray A. Williamson
- Animals in American Indian life: an overview / Sandra L. Olsen
- Ethno-ornithology of the Zuni / Edmund James Ladd
- Ecology, conservation, and the buffalo jump / Shepard Krech III
- American Indian plant use: an overview / Frances B. King
- The sacred cedar tree of the Kwakwaka'wakw people / Daisy Sewid-Smith and Chief Adam Dick, interviewed by Nancy J. Turner
- Corn Man and Tobacco Woman in Pima cosmology / Amadeo M. Rea
- Nature as a model for American Indian societies: an overview / Marsha C. Bol
- Origins: through Tewa eyes / Alfonso Ortiz.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1570981981
- OCLC:
- 38478460
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