Games of the North American Indian, Volume 2: Games of Skill - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Stewart Culin, Dennis Tedlock (Introduction by)Series:Games of the North American Indians #2Publish date:1992-11-01Pages:490
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803263567ISBN-10:803263562UPC:9780803263567Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Native American StudiesSize:9.28 x 5.87 x 1.23 inchesWeight:1.6821Product ID:SCEB8G9E6W
Games of the North American Indian, Volume 2: Games of Skill
Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, and also in their ceremonies for bringing rain and fertility and combating misfortune. In his classic study, originally published in 1907 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Stewart Culin divided the games played by Indian men and women into two general types.
Volume 1 of this Bison Books edition takes up games...
Series: Games of the North American Indians #2
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803263567ISBN-10:803263562UPC:9780803263567Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Native American StudiesSize:9.28 x 5.87 x 1.23 inchesWeight:1.6821Product ID:SCEB8G9E6W
Dennis Tedlock, in an eloquent introduction, discusses his own experience of Indian games, showing that those described by Culin are still played today. A professor of English at State University of New York at Buffalo, Tedlock is the translator of Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians, also a Bison Book.
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