Here 14 women of diverse background offer an intimate look at life in the occupied territories and Arab society. Not primarily a book about Palestinian-Israeli politics, the book is rather a collection of vital, resonant voices that reveal what it is like to be Palestinian and female. 31 photos; map.
KinaaldA, the ceremony associated with the onset of a girl's puberty, is an important Navajo rite within the Blessingway complex. Derived from the experiences of Changing Woman, the puberty ceremony has been passed through generations and continues to be observed throughout Navajoland. An acknowledged classic, KinaaldA remains the most complete ......
The Western Shoshone people live throughout eastern Nevada and western Utah (Goshute). When Anne Smith visited the region in 1939 there was only one formally designated reservation. Smith and her companion Alden Hayes traveled countless mile of remote road collecting stories, documenting Western Shoshonean tradition, and seeking to determine the ......
A pioneering study of how native Americans speak English, and an argument that the variations between the different speech communities can be attributed to the influence of ancestral languages and cultures. Covering both spoken and written language, describes sound patterns, sentence forms, history
These distinctive animal and human tales offer a rich source of Ute culture for anyone interested in the peoples of the Great Basin. The 102 stories are ribald, sometimes violent, yet delicately balanced and full of humor. In addition to Smith's transcriptions from Ute storytellers, Ute Tales contains photographs made in 1909 by Edward Sapir and ......
Virgin Anazazi Architecture, Ceramics, and Burials
Focuses on one of the sites investigated by M.R. Harrington in the 1920s, to carve out from the misleading connotations of "Lost City" a concept of a site that was a community, Main Ridge, and examines it for indications of its size and its organization, as well as evidence of social differentiation among the buried population, and its involvement ......
A collection of distinctive Ute animal and human tales that offers a rich source of Ute culture for anyone interested in the peoples of the Great Basin.
Camp Floyd and the Mormons traces the history of the sojourn of "Johnston's Army" in Utah Territory from the beginning of the Utah War in 1857 through the abandonment of Camp Floyd in Cedar Valley west of Utah Lake at the outbreak of the Civil War. The book describes the relationship between the invading army and the local Mormon population, gives ......
