Although best known for his paintings of native Americans, the author also wrote books about his experiences among the indigenous peoples of the U.S.--their manners, customs and conditions.

North American Indians (Nature Library, Penguin)

History

Catlin, George

Americas

Penguin??Books

In 1832, at the age of 36, painter George Catlin went west to preserve the traditions of the American Indians. For eight years, he traveled among various tribes, recording the customs and lifestyles of the Crow, Blackfoot, Sioux and Cheyenne.

North American Indians (Classic, Nature, Penguin)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.”
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<li> A one-volume edition of Catlin's journals </li> <li> Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin's incomparable paintings </li>
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North American Indians (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Classics

War and Democracy: Essays on the Causes and Prevention of War (Routledge Library Editions: Peace Studies)

Bowlby, John

THOMAS, IVOR

Durbin, E.F.M.

Crossman, R. H. S

Jay, D. P. T.

Fraser, R. B.

Reference

Routledge

A History of the Political Philosophers (Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy)

Originally published in 1939, this book was intended as a guide to political theory intelligible to the common reader, with quotations from the original sources sufficiently extensive to enable them to sample for themselves the 'taste' and 'colour' of these writings. This history of theory has been placed against brief descriptions, as background, of the civilization of the times, as the reader passes down the avenues of thought from age to age. It is a history of political thought set against the background of the history of civilization, but that thought is also displayed in the setting of the characteristics and biographies of the thinkers, whose minds we search and whom we seek to know familiarly, however long ago gone to dust.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Gathers sketches of Pawnee, Sioux, Crow, Ojibway, Kiowa, Blackfoot, Seneca, Iroquois, Arapaho, Apache, Mohican, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee Indians by a nineteenth-century artist

Drawings of the North American Indians

Arts & Photography

DOUBLEDAY

Hope has been called the "life blood of the soul", an indispensable condition for human existence. Yet evidence in this book suggests that hope is neither a necessary nor a universal part of life. Rather, hope is constituted in accordance with cultural norms, and hence it may vary fundamentally from one society to another. In the first of four studies, Averill, Catlin, and Chon delineate four classes of rules that help constitute hope in Western societies. A second study examines the similarities and differences between hope and other, more prototypic emotions, such as anger and love. The third study uses content analyses of maxims and metaphors to clarify further the Western model of hope. In the fourth study, hope is compared with himang, its closest counterpart in Korea. The results of these studies provide the basis for an analysis of the functions of hope, on both the individual and social levels. But this book is not simply about hope. It is also about emotions in general. Current psychological theories focus on emotions that have distinct physiological components (e.g., fear and anger) and that can be investigated using animal models. As a consequence, our theories have a strong biological orientation. How would our theories change if they were to encompass more cognitively oriented emotions, such as hope? Rules of Hope provides some answers to this question.

Rules of Hope (Recent Research in Psychology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Averill, James R.

Chon, Kyum K.

Mental Health

Springer

From the foremost collection of the artist's work, a remarkable portrait of Native American life. In 1832, George Catlin―showman, entrepreneur, and artist―made the first of four trips into Indian country, painting as he went, in a wonderfully spontaneous, if somewhat naive style. His ambition was to paint every tribe. He fell short. But what he did achieve, and the subject of this splendid volume, is a remarkable look into the faces and daily activities of Native Americans before their lands and their numbers were so radically diminished. And while Catlin was clearly influenced by the idea that Indians were Noble Savages (rapidly acquiring the vices of the white man while losing their "savage" virtues), his passion for his work is evidence of a profound respect and affection for his subjects, clearly demonstrated in this magnificent book. 275 illustrations, 150 in color.

George Catlin and His Indian Gallery

Gurney, George

Dippie, Brian W.

Museum, Smithsonian American Art

History & Criticism

W.W.Norton&Company

Volume 1 of the classic account of life among Plains Indians includes fascinating information on ceremonies, rituals, the hunt, warfare, and much more. Total in set: 312 plates.

Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians, Volume I (Native American)

Dover Publications

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