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Author : Maurice Boyd
Publisher : Fort Worth, Tex. : Texas Christian University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :

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In this first volume of Kiowa Vioces the society has presented Kiowa cultural beliefs and values as preserved and revealed in a combination of Kiowa ceremonial dances and song rituals, their legends and art.

Author : Benjamin R. Kracht
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2022-09
Category :
ISBN : 1496232658

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Benjamin Kracht's Kiowa Belief and Ritual, a collection of materials gleaned from Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field notes and augmented by Alice Marriott's field notes, significantly enhances the existing literature concerning Plains religions.

Author : N. Scott Momaday
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 1976-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 082632696X

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First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. "The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to proceed from a place of origin as old as the earth. "The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself."--from the new Preface

Author : Brian Swann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803243002

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Gathers stories and songs from thirty-one native groups in North America, including the Inupiaqs, the Lushoots, the Catawbas, and the Maliseets.

Author : Philbrook Museum of Art
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN :

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The text of the catalogue section of the book comes primarily from the actual words of artists represented in the collection, and those of their friends and families, gathered through interviews. Together, these narratives and the beautifully reproduced body of paintings tell the fascinating story of Native American painting in modern America.

Author : Gus Palmer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816522774

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Among the Kiowa, storytelling takes place under familiar circumstances. A small group of relatives and close friends gather. Tales are informative as well as entertaining. Joking and teasing are key components. Group participation is expected. And outsiders are seldom involved. This book explores the traditional art of storytelling still practiced by Kiowas today as Gus Palmer shares conversations held with storytellers. Combining narrative, personal experience, and ethnography in an original and artful way, Palmer—an anthropologist raised in a traditional Kiowa family—shows not only that storytelling remains an integral part of Kiowa culture but also that narratives embedded in everyday conversation are the means by which Kiowa cultural beliefs and values are maintained. Palmer's study features contemporary oral storytelling and other discourses, assembled over two and a half years of fieldwork, that demonstrate how Kiowa storytellers practice their art. Focusing on stories and their meaning within a narrative and ethnographic context, he draws on a range of material, including dream stories, stories about the coming of Táimê (the spirit of the Sun Dance) to the Kiowas, and stories of tricksters and tribal heroes. He shows how storytellers employ the narrative devices of actively participating in oral narratives, leaving stories wide open, or telling stories within stories. And he demonstrates how stories can reflect a wide range of sensibilities, from magical realism to gossip. Firmly rooted in current linguistic anthropological thought, Telling Stories the Kiowa Way is a work of analysis and interpretation that helps us understand story within its larger cultural contexts. It combines the author's unique literary talent with his people's equally unique perspective on anthropological questions in a text that can be enjoyed on multiple levels by scholars and general readers alike.