The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game : : A Study of Cultural Change / / Alexander Lesser.
Studies the history of the Pawnee from the very early 1800's. Looks specifically at the complexities of the ghost dance and the hand game and maintaining the essential values of the Native American culture.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1933] ©1933 |
| Year of Publication: | 1933 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- I I. THE PAWNEE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- II. THE GHOST DANCE AMONG THE PAWNEE.
- IIΙ. CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GHOST DANCE
- IV. THE HAND GAME. DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTER
- V. PLAY OF THE PAWNEE HAND GAME
- VI. THE OLD PAWNEE HAND GAME
- VII. THE GHOST DANCE HAND GAME
- VIII . ANALYSIS OF THE GHOST DANCE HAND GAME
- IX. THE SOUTH BAND HAND GAMES
- X. THE SKIRI HAND GAMES
- XI. COMPARISON OF THE OLD HAND GAME AND THE GHOST DANCE HAND GAME
- XII. HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GHOST DANCE HAND GAME
- BIBLIOGRAPHY