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Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America / Aby M. Warburg -- Aby Warburg's Kreuzlingen Lecture: A Reading / Michael P. Steinberg. Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929) is recognized not only as one of the century's preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg's 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available for the first time in English translation, Michael Steinberg offers offers at once a window on his career, a formative statement of his cultural history of modernity, and a document in the ethnography of the American Southwest. This edition includes thirty-nine photographs, many of them originally presented as slides with the speech, and a rich interpretive essay by the translator. Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Warburg's seminal study of the "serpent ritual" of the Hopi people, which grew out of a trip to the American Southwest undertaken by Warburg in 1895-1896.
Pueblo Indians --- Serpent worship. --- Religion. --- Snake worship --- Animal worship --- Serpents --- Religious aspects --- Hopi --- Native Americans --- serpent worship --- American southwest --- ethnography --- photography
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The Other West provides a provocative new interpretation of Latin American history and the region's place in the changing global political economy, from the discovery of America into the twenty-first century. Marcello Carmagnani's award-winning and multidisciplinary analysis sheds new light on historical processes and explains how this vast expanse of territory--stretching from the American Southwest to the tip of the Southern Cone--became Europeanized in the colonial period, and how the European and American civilizations transformed one another as they grew together. Carmagnani departs from traditional historical thought by situating his narrative in the context of world history, brilliantly showing how the Iberian populations and cultures--both European and American--merged and evolved.
World history. --- International relations --- History. --- Latin America --- Relations. --- 21st century. --- american civilization. --- american southwest. --- colonial period. --- cross cultural. --- cultural evolution. --- culture and history. --- discovery of america. --- european civilization. --- european colonization. --- global politics. --- globalization. --- historical perspective. --- historical processes. --- history buffs. --- iberian culture. --- iberian populations. --- invasion. --- latin america. --- latin american culture. --- latin american history. --- multidisciplinary analysis. --- political economy. --- regional history. --- southern cone. --- world history.
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Hopi Indians --- the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona --- the Hopi worldview --- anthropology --- ethnology --- Indian study --- Hopi legends --- religious rituals and ceremonies --- conception of life within the natural world --- materialistic worlds --- Hopi mysticism --- Hopi art, history, tradition, myth, folklore and ceremonialism --- the American Southwest
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Described as "a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to another distinctive corner of California-its desert, the driest and hottest environment in North America. Drawing from his frequent forays to Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon, Kelso Dunes, and other locales, Wallace illuminates the desert's intriguing flora and fauna as he explores a controversial, unresolved scientific debate about the origin and evolution of its unusual ecosystems. Eminent scientists and scholars appear throughout these pages, including maverick paleobiologist Daniel Axelrod, botanist Ledyard Stebbins, and naturalists Edmund Jaeger and Joseph Wood Krutch. Weaving together ecology, geology, natural history, and mythology in his characteristically eloquent voice, Wallace reveals that there is more to this starkly beautiful landscape than meets the eye.
Desert biology --- Deserts --- american southwest. --- arid. --- biome. --- biosphere. --- botany. --- cacti. --- california. --- conservation. --- death valley. --- desert animals. --- desert plants. --- desert. --- earth sciences. --- ecology. --- ecosystem. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- extreme heat. --- geology. --- kelso dunes. --- landscape. --- life sciences. --- natural history. --- naturalist. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- paleobiology. --- red rock canyon. --- science. --- wasteland. --- zoology.
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Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such contemporary artists as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. From his home in Los Angeles, Ruess walked, hitchhiked, and rode burros up the California coast, along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, and into the deserts of the Southwest. In the first probing biography of Everett Ruess, acclaimed environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin goes beyond the myth to reveal the realities of Ruess's short life and mysterious death and finds in the artist's astonishing afterlife a lonely hero who persevered.
Poets, American --- Explorers --- Discoverers --- Navigators --- Voyagers --- Adventure and adventurers --- Heroes --- Discoveries in geography --- Ruess, Everett, --- 20th century artists. --- american artists. --- american disappearances. --- american legends. --- american mystery. --- american southwest. --- american west. --- ansel adams. --- art history. --- artist biography. --- crime. --- criminal investigation. --- depression era art. --- dorothea lange. --- edward weston. --- great depression. --- historical disappearances. --- history. --- into the wild. --- mysteries of the west. --- mysterious death. --- mystery and adventure. --- southwestern history. --- unsolved disappearances. --- unsolved mysteries. --- utah artists. --- utah history. --- utah mysteries. --- vagabond artists.
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In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing them in ways we can never know with certainty. The Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch in the high desert of southeastern Arizona is an 8,000-acre sanctuary where grazing has been banned since 1968. In this spirited account of thirty years of research at the ranch, Carl and Jane Bock summarize the results of their fieldwork, which was aimed at understanding the dynamics of grasslands in the absence of livestock. The View from Bald Hill provides an intimate look at the natural history of this unique site and illuminates many issues pertaining to the protection and restoration of our nation's grasslands.
Grassland ecology --- Grasslands --- Ecology --- Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch Sanctuary (Ariz.) --- Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch (Ariz.) --- Grassland ecology -- Arizona -- Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch Sanctuary.. --- Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch Sanctuary (Ariz.). --- Grassland ecology -- Arizona -- Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch Sanctuary. --- 1500s. --- academic. --- american southwest. --- animal sanctuary. --- arizona. --- breeding animals. --- domestic livestock. --- domestic. --- ecological. --- ecology. --- fieldwork. --- grasslands. --- grazing cattle. --- grazing livestock. --- habitats. --- livestock. --- natural history. --- natural world. --- raising animals. --- raising cattle. --- raising horses. --- raising sheep. --- ranch life. --- regional. --- research. --- sanctuary. --- scholarly. --- southwestern united states. --- species.
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This analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans.
Navajo mythology --- Navajo Indians --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Diné Indians (Navajo) --- Navaho Indians --- Athapascan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Mythology, Navajo --- Religion --- Religion and mythology --- Navajo mythology. --- HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. --- Religion. --- american southwest. --- christianity. --- comparative religion studies. --- creation myth. --- good and evil. --- health rituals. --- herding. --- humanity. --- hunting and gathering society. --- indigenous peoples. --- internal historical conflict. --- judaism. --- native american culture. --- native american religion. --- native peoples. --- navajo creation myth. --- navajo narratives. --- navajo origin myth. --- navajo religion. --- navajo society. --- navajo. --- order and chaos. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- social organization. --- the underworlds. --- tricksters.
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