The 1870 Ghost Dance - Paperback
by Cora Du Bois
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Availability:In StockContributor:Cora Du Bois, Thomas Buckley (Introduction by)Publish date:7/1/2007Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803266629ISBN-10:803266626UPC:9780803266629Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Indigenous, Native American StudiesSize:8.94 x 6.40 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCFPE0V4DM
The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of northern California. The spiritual energies of this "great wave," as Peter Nabokov has called it, have passed down to the present day among Native Californians, some of whose contemporary individual and communal lives can be understood only in light...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803266629ISBN-10:803266626UPC:9780803266629Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Indigenous, Native American StudiesSize:8.94 x 6.40 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCFPE0V4DM
Cora Du Bois (1903-91) was the first woman to receive tenure in anthropology at Harvard University, in 1954, and did important research in Indonesia and India as well as California. She served as the president of the American Anthropological Society and was the author of many books, including The People of Alor, Wintu Myths, and Social Forces in the Southeast. Thomas Buckley is an independent...
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