Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections Publisher Greenwood Pub Group

Strategies for Survival: American Indians in the Eastern United States (Contributions in Ethnic Studies)

History

Porter, Frank

Americas

Praeger

This bibliography includes more than 1,100 entries from books, journals, newspaper articles, and dissertations concerning North American Indian basketry. More general cultural works with some information on basketry are also included, and the materials date from early ethnographic work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to 1987. . . . The introduction offers a good overview of research in Native American basketry, and although the annotations vary greatly in thoroughness and length, they are generally useful. This unique, well-produced bibliography is recommended for collections supporting programs in anthropology, crafts, or Native American Studies. Choice
Interest in Native American basketry dates from the late 1800s, when an enthusiastic public, together with curators, academic collectors, and archaeologists, first began to appreciate the value and uniqueness of these beautiful hand-crafted artifacts. This bibliography is the first comprehensive guide to publications on the subject. Organized by major cultural areas of North America, it offers annotated listings of books, journal articles, dissertations, theses, monographs, and selected newspaper articles published over the last 100 years. In his introductory essay, Porter discusses the history of Native American basket making and the findings and views of some of the anthropologists, archaeologists, and popular writers whose works contribute to our knowledge of the subject. The bibliography is divided into eleven sections, each dealing with a specific geographical/cultural area. Entries are cross-referenced, and a comprehensive index gives convenient access to authors, titles, and subjects.

Native American Basketry: An Annotated Bibliography (Art Reference Collection)

Arts & Photography

Greenwood

In recent years, Native American basketry has aroused the interest and admiration of individuals, from the scholar to the collector. It is a complex subject and offers an opportunity to study through time the various changes which transpired in its function, form and manufacture. Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy, by Frank W. Porter III, is the first major study of the subject since 1904, and presents a collection of essays written by those intimately familiar with the basket makers and basketry of North America.
Illustrated with approximately 80 black-and-white photographs--many of which are historical records of basket makers and their baskets--Native American Basketry uses archaeological, ethnographic, historical and contemporary information in discussing the changes in native basketry from prehistoric times to the present. In spite of the wide range of habitats, as well as the social and cultural diversity of the basket-making tribes, it is surprising to discover the similar ways the basket makers adapted basketry after prolonged contact with nonIndian peoples. The book is especially well-suited not only for the scholar of American Indian art history, but cultural history as well.

The Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy (Contributions to the Study of Anthropology)

Literatures of the American Indian

Literatures of the American Indian (Indians of North America)

Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown

Teen & Young Adult

Chelsea House Pub

Review\n"Highly amusing but also a heartfelt tale of life, loss, and love... (What Now, Lieutenant) keeps a good balance between sympathy and admiration for the heroes of the tale whilst also never shying away from their many flaws and vices." 
--- Readers' Favorite\nBESOTTED by the women who inflame, entice but usually elude or ignore them, What Now, Lieutenant tracks three men from the Second World War into the present century.\nDr. Elder is a well-intentioned classicist/polytheist, who, having been flung into the Battle of the Bulge, emerges physically intact and embarks on a quest for a congenial wife and a stress-free life. 
Freddy (he’d much prefer “Fred”), Dr. Elder’s unprepossessing son, aches to excel and live up to his mistaken image of his father.\nDaniel Shaver, Dr. Elder’s disadvantaged protege and Freddy’s implacable rival, is a bubbling cauldron of insatiable ambition, inexhaustible ego, and irrepressible id. He’ll do whatever’s expedient to triumph everywhere, whether it’s the boardroom, the battlefield, or the boudoir.\nMeanwhile, the women are having none of it. They propel the narrative and treat the men with disdain or, at best, provisional tolerance.

What Now, Lieutenant

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

River Grove Books

Semper Fee

Semper Fee, set in an old-line Boston law firm, is a ribald comic novel about greed, infidelity, betrayal, and worse. Unfolding through two distinctive first-person narratives, the novel explores the entwined but wholly different lives of two partners, Andrew Millard and Eliot Lawrence, rivals since childhood. In their differing ways, the covetous Millard and Eliot, the aging Eagle Scout, betray or simply take for granted the women for whom they've so strenuously competed. However, it is the women who advance and deepen the narrative, delighting, tormenting, illuminating, and invariably controlling the two men. Essential to the lives of both are the incomparable Clare Lawrence and her subversive daughter, Ceci. Semper Fee lays bare the joys and humiliations of desire and tallies the cost of choices made or not made by its two central characters in a claustrophobic universe of unsavory shenanigans.

Austin Macauley

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Strategies for Survival: American Indians in the Eastern United States (Contributions in Ethnic Studies)

Native American Basketry: An Annotated Bibliography (Art Reference Collection)

The Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Legacy (Contributions to the Study of Anthropology)

Literatures of the American Indian (Indians of North America)

What Now, Lieutenant

Semper Fee

Semper Fee