The Crow Indians Robert H. Lowie

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crow Indians.

Indians of North America--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

xxii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

1st Bison bk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1983, ©1935.

Summary:

For nearly ten years between 1907 and 1931, anthropologist Robert H. Lowie lived among the Crow Indians, listening to the old men and women tell of times gone forever. Lowie learned much about what had been, and still was, a society remarkable for its variability and cohesion, and for its resistance to the encroachments of white civilization. Written with clarity and vigor, Lowie's study makes instantly accessible what had taken him years to discover. He sacrificed neither personal sensitivity nor narrative skill to scientific scruples, but brought his scientific work to life. Crow religion, ceremonies, taboos, kinship bonds, tribal organization, division of labor, codes of honor, and rites of courtship and wedlock receive their due. The Crow Indians is a masterpiece of ethnography, foremost for Lowie's portrayal of the different personalities he encountered: Gray-bull and his marital troubles; the great visionary Medicine-crow; Yellow-brow, the gifted storyteller; and many more.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Rinehart, 1935.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Indian Rights Association Complementary Collection

ISBN:

0803279094

9780803279094

OCLC:

8931511