Mammoth Book of Native Americans

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Typ okładki:miękka okładka

EAN: 9781841195933

Opis

Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here, in one grand sweep, is the full story of Native American society, culture and religion. Here is everything from the land-based spirituality of their early creation myths and the late rise of Indian Pride, to the 88 uses to which the Sioux put the flesh and bones of the buffalo and the practice of berdache (men adopted as women).

The book offers a chronological history of America's indigenous peoples. It covers their dramatic early entry into North America, out of the now submerged continent of Beringia, then in more recent times the 'forgotten wars' of the 16th and 17th centuries, which wiped many tribes from the face of the East Coast, and finally describes to the last struggles of the Cheyenne and the Comanche. Celebrating these peoples' way of life rather than focusing narrowly on the manner of their genocide, it does not ignore uncomfortable facts of the Amerindian past - including the cannibalism believed to have been practised by some tribes and the Native Americans' part in the decimation of North America's buffalo herds.

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Szczegóły

Wymiary: 132 x 196 mm

Typ okładki:miękka okładka

Wydawca: Constable & Robinson

Autor:

Jon Lewis

Seria: Mammoth Books

Tytuł:Mammoth Book of Native Americans

Kategorie:

Książki obcojęzyczne / angielskie / History and Archeology
Książki obcojęzyczne / angielskie / Psychology
Książki obcojęzyczne / angielskie / Sociology

EAN: 9781841195933

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