The Cheyenne Indians: War, Ceremonies, and Religion - Brossura

Grinnell, George Bird

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ISBN 10: 0803257724 ISBN 13: 9780803257726

Casa editrice: Bison Books, 1972

Riassunto

The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. In Volume I he wrote about the tribe's early history and migrations, customs, domestic life, social organization, hunting, amusements, and government. Volume II looks at its warmaking and warrior societies, healing practices and responses to European diseases, religious beliefs and rituals, and legends and prophecies surrounding the culture hero Sweet Medicine. Included are appendixes on early Cheyenne village sites, the formation of the Quilling Society, and notes on Cheyenne songs.

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L'autore:

George Bird Grinnell was a zoologist by training and an anthropologist by inclination. He accompanied Custer's Black Hills expedition as a naturalist in 1874 and from that time until his death in 1938 was closely associated with the Cheyennes and other Plains tribes. Other books by Grinnell available in Bison Book editions are Blackfoot Lodge Tales,Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales, By Cheyenne Campfires, and The Punishment of the Stingy and Other Indian Stories.

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• Editore: Bison Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0803257724
• ISBN 13: 9780803257726
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 478