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"The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact is the first volume to synthesize archaeological research from across Atlantic Canada and northern New England for the period spanning from 3000 years ago to European contact. Recently, notions of the "Woodland period" in the broader Northeast have drawn scrutiny from experts due to increasing awareness that its hallmarks--such as horticulture, village formation, mortuary ceremonialism, and the advent of various technologies--appear to be less synchronous than once thought. By paying particular attention to the Far Northeast and its unique (yet sometimes marginal) position in Woodland discourse, this work offers a much-needed in-depth look at one of the best-documented cases of hunter-gatherer persistence and adaptation at the eve of European contact. Penned by academic, government, and cultural-resource-management archaeologists, the seventeen chapters in The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact draw on decades of research in considering this period, both in terms of variability within the region, and integration with broader cultural patterns in the Northeast and beyond."--

Sylvicole --- Nouvelle-Angleterre --- Antiquites. --- Nord-est de l'Amérique du Nord, sylviculture, pré-contact, autochtones, changement culturel. --- Northeastern North America, Woodland, Pre-Contact, Indigenous, culture change.

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This engaging book provides a broad and accessible analysis of Mexico's contemporary struggle for democratic development. Now completely revised, it brings up to date issues ranging from electoral reform and accountability to drug trafficking, migration, and NAFTA. It also considers the rapidly changing role of Mexico's mass and elite groups, and its national institutions, including the media, the military, and the Church.

Democracy --- Mexico --- Politics and government --- alamo. --- antonio lopez de santa anna. --- aztec. --- carlos salinas. --- catholic church. --- colonialism. --- conquest. --- conquistadores. --- cortes. --- democracy. --- drug trafficking. --- electoral reform. --- empire. --- ernesto zedillo. --- ethnicity. --- government. --- history. --- imperialism. --- indigenous culture. --- indigenous people. --- jose maria morelos. --- la reforma. --- media. --- mexican history. --- mexican independence. --- mexican revolution. --- mexico. --- migration. --- miguel hidalgo. --- military. --- modern mexico. --- nafta. --- nonfiction. --- politics. --- porfiriato. --- social change. --- spain.

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The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare, authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is a literary achievement of the highest order.

Welsh literature. --- annwfn. --- arthurian romances. --- bendigeidfran. --- branwen. --- celtic literature. --- celtic mythology. --- celtic. --- celts. --- culhwch and olwen. --- culhwch. --- elphin. --- fiction. --- folk narrative. --- folklore. --- folktale. --- gwion bach. --- gwion. --- gwydion. --- indigenous culture. --- indigenous peoples. --- legend. --- lludd and lleuelys. --- llyr. --- mabinogi. --- manawydan. --- math. --- mathonwy. --- medieval. --- myth. --- narrative. --- prince of dyfed. --- pwyll. --- red book of hergest. --- storytelling. --- taliesin. --- wales. --- welsh mythology. --- welsh tradition. --- white book of rhydderch.

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Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages-from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, and to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of the language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California's remarkable Indian languages.

Indians of North America --- Languages. --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- algic. --- american languages. --- anthropology. --- athabaskan. --- baja california. --- california. --- chumash. --- franciscans. --- grammars. --- hokan. --- indian languages. --- indigenous culture. --- indigenous language. --- indigenous languages. --- indigenous people. --- jesuit missionaries. --- language. --- languages. --- lexical borrowing. --- linguistic diversity. --- linguistics. --- monqui. --- native american. --- native speakers. --- nonfiction. --- pacific coast. --- penutian. --- pericu. --- pitch. --- postcolonial. --- prehistory. --- tone. --- uto aztecan. --- villages. --- waikuri. --- wintuan. --- yukian.

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The Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, live in small towns spread over southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, lands of remarkable biological diversity. Traditional Mayo knowledge is quickly being lost as this culture becomes absorbed into modern Mexico. Moreover, as big agriculture spreads into the region, the natural biodiversity of these lands is also rapidly disappearing. This engaging and accessible ethnobotany, based on hundreds of interviews with the Mayos and illustrated with the authors' strikingly beautiful photographs, helps preserve our knowledge of both an indigenous culture and an endangered environment. This book contains a comprehensive description of northwest Mexico's tropical deciduous forests and thornscrub on the traditional Mayo lands reaching from the Sea of Cortés to the foothills of the Sierra Madre. The first half of the book is a highly readable account of the climate, geology, and vegetation of the region. The authors also provide a valuable history of the people, their language, culture, festival traditions, and plant use. The second half of the book is an annotated list of plants presenting the authors' detailed findings on plant use in Mayo culture.

Ethnobotany --- Mayo Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnobiology --- Plants --- Human-plant relationships --- Yolem'me Indians --- Yoreme Indians --- Cahita Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Ethnobotany. --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Phytogeography --- Sinaloa --- Sonora --- agiabampo. --- agriculture. --- anthropology. --- arroyo. --- biodiversity. --- botany. --- climate. --- conservation. --- deciduous forest. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- ethnobotany. --- festivals. --- folklore. --- geology. --- herbal medicine. --- indigenous culture. --- indigenous peoples. --- mayos. --- mexico. --- nonfiction. --- northwestern mexico. --- plant use. --- rite. --- ritual. --- science. --- sea of cortes. --- sierra madre. --- sinaloa. --- sonora. --- thorn scrub. --- tradition. --- tropical forest. --- vegetation.