The Crow Indians - Couverture souple

Lowie, Robert H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803279094 ISBN 13 : 9780803279094

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1983

Synopsis

For nearly ten years between 1907 and 1931, anthropologist Robert H. Lowie lived among the Crow Indians, listening to the old men and women tell of times gone forever. Lowie learned much about what had been, and still was, a society remarkable for its variability and cohesion, and for its resistance to the encroachments of white civilization. Written with clarity and vigor, Lowie's study makes instantly accessible what had taken him years to discover. He sacrificed neither personal sensitivity nor narrative skill to scientific scruples, but brought his scientific work to life. Crow religion, ceremonies, taboos, kinship bonds, tribal organization, division of labor, codes of honor, and rites of courtship and wedlock receive their due. The Crow Indians is a masterpiece of ethnography, foremost for Lowie's portrayal of the different personalities he encountered: Gray-bull and his marital troubles; the great visionary Medicine-crow; Yellow-brow, the gifted storyteller; and many more.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803279094
• ISBN 13: 9780803279094
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 350
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