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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Proceedings of the First Conference on Scientific Research in the National Parks, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 9-12, 1976
Author: Robert M. Linn
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Proceedings of the ... Conference on Scientific Research in the National Parks. --
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Native American Architecture
Author: Peter Nabokov
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199840512
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life. The collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, Native American Architecture presents the first book-length, fully illustrated exploration of North American Indian architecture to appear in over a century. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton together examine the building traditions of the major tribes in nine regional areas of the continent from the huge plank-house villages of the Northwest Coast to the moundbuilder towns and temples of the Southeast, to the Navajo hogans and adobe pueblos of the Southwest. Going beyond a traditional survey of buildings, the book offers a broad, clear view into the Native American world, revealing a new perspective on the interaction between their buildings and culture. Looking at Native American architecture as more than buildings, villages, and camps, Nabokov and Easton also focus on their use of space, their environment, their social mores, and their religious beliefs. Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian building practices undergoing a revival or in danger today. The volume also includes a wealth of historical photographs and drawings (including sixteen pages of color illustrations), architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal house types.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199840512
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life. The collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, Native American Architecture presents the first book-length, fully illustrated exploration of North American Indian architecture to appear in over a century. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton together examine the building traditions of the major tribes in nine regional areas of the continent from the huge plank-house villages of the Northwest Coast to the moundbuilder towns and temples of the Southeast, to the Navajo hogans and adobe pueblos of the Southwest. Going beyond a traditional survey of buildings, the book offers a broad, clear view into the Native American world, revealing a new perspective on the interaction between their buildings and culture. Looking at Native American architecture as more than buildings, villages, and camps, Nabokov and Easton also focus on their use of space, their environment, their social mores, and their religious beliefs. Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian building practices undergoing a revival or in danger today. The volume also includes a wealth of historical photographs and drawings (including sixteen pages of color illustrations), architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal house types.
The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
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The United States Catalog Supplement, January 1918-June 1921
Author: Eleanor E. Hawkins
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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Archeological Research Series
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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The Chaco Meridian
Author: Stephen H. Lekson
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780761991816
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Stephen H. Lekson offers a lively, provocative thesis, which attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of the monumental 11th-century structures in Chaco Canyon and its importance to the understanding of the entire Southwest.
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780761991816
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Stephen H. Lekson offers a lively, provocative thesis, which attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of the monumental 11th-century structures in Chaco Canyon and its importance to the understanding of the entire Southwest.
Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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A world list of books in the English language.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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A world list of books in the English language.
Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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