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Author : Louis F. Burns
Release : 1994
Genre : Decoration and ornament
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Book Synopsis Symbolic and Decorative Art of the Osage People by : Louis F. Burns
Download or read book Symbolic and Decorative Art of the Osage People written by Louis F. Burns. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis F. Burns
Release : 2004-01-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A History of the Osage People by : Louis F. Burns
Download or read book A History of the Osage People written by Louis F. Burns. This book was released on 2004-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Burns draws on ancestral oral traditions and research in a broad body of literature to tell the story of the Osage people. He writes clearly and concisely, from the Osage perspective. First published in 1989 and for many years out of print, this revised edition is augmented by a new preface and maps. Because of its masterful compilation and synthesis of the known data, A History of the Osage People continues to be the best reference for information on an important American Indian people.
Author : George E. Lankford
Release : 2014-05-23
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Visualizing the Sacred by : George E. Lankford
Download or read book Visualizing the Sacred written by George E. Lankford. This book was released on 2014-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set of symbols and motifs that constituted one of the greatest artistic traditions of the pre-Columbian Americas. Traditionally known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, these artifacts of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood were the subject of the groundbreaking 2007 book Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography, which presented a major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the Mississippian peoples. Visualizing the Sacred advances the study of Mississippian iconography by delving into the regional variations within what is now known as the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS). Bringing archaeological, ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and iconographic perspectives to the analysis of Mississippian art, contributors from several disciplines discuss variations in symbols and motifs among major sites and regions across a wide span of time and also consider what visual symbols reveal about elite status in diverse political environments. These findings represent the first formal identification of style regions within the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere and call for a new understanding of the MIIS as a network of localized, yet interrelated religious systems that experienced both continuity and change over time.
Author : Alfred Louis Kroeber
Release : 2008-06-01
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Book Synopsis Decorative Symbolism of the Arapaho (1901) by : Alfred Louis Kroeber
Download or read book Decorative Symbolism of the Arapaho (1901) written by Alfred Louis Kroeber. This book was released on 2008-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Ian McLean
Release : 2014-11-19
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Double Desire by : Ian McLean
Download or read book Double Desire written by Ian McLean. This book was released on 2014-11-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art. The double desire explored in this book is that of the divided but also amplified attractions that occur between cultural traditions in places where both indigenous and colonial legacies are strong. The result, it is argued, produces imaginative transcultural practices that resist the assimilation or acculturation of Indigenous perspectives into the dominant Western mod...
