Native American Architecture
Title | Native American Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Nabokov |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 1990-10-25 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0199840512 |
For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life. The collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, Native American Architecture presents the first book-length, fully illustrated exploration of North American Indian architecture to appear in over a century. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton together examine the building traditions of the major tribes in nine regional areas of the continent from the huge plank-house villages of the Northwest Coast to the moundbuilder towns and temples of the Southeast, to the Navajo hogans and adobe pueblos of the Southwest. Going beyond a traditional survey of buildings, the book offers a broad, clear view into the Native American world, revealing a new perspective on the interaction between their buildings and culture. Looking at Native American architecture as more than buildings, villages, and camps, Nabokov and Easton also focus on their use of space, their environment, their social mores, and their religious beliefs. Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian building practices undergoing a revival or in danger today. The volume also includes a wealth of historical photographs and drawings (including sixteen pages of color illustrations), architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal house types.
Indian-white Relations in the United States
Title | Indian-white Relations in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Paul Prucha |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780803287051 |
A tool for scholars working in the field of Indian studies. This title covers the topic of Indian-white relations with breadth and depth.
Handbook of North American Indians: History of Indian-White relations
Title | Handbook of North American Indians: History of Indian-White relations PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 860 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Eskimos |
ISBN |
Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples in Siberia, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.
A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-white Relations in the United States
Title | A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-white Relations in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Paul Prucha |
Publisher | Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 486 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
"A publication of the Center for the History of the American Indian of the Newberry Library.".
American Indian and White Relations to 1830, Needs & Opportunities for Study
Title | American Indian and White Relations to 1830, Needs & Opportunities for Study PDF eBook |
Author | William Nelson Fenton |
Publisher | New York : Russell & Russell |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin
Title | Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 28 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Crops and climate |
ISBN |
Native American Testimony
Title | Native American Testimony PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Nabokov |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 529 |
Release | 1999-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0140281592 |
From the author of How the World Moves--the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American History In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first encounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confronting Native American culture today, Native American Testimony spans five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources--traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more--Nabokov has assembled a remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing less than an alternate history of North America.