Publisher: New York, The Trustees Publication date: 1909 Subjects: Shoshoni Indians Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Northern Shoshone

History

Lowie, Robert H.

World

Ams Pr Inc

The tales here published were collected in the course of my repeated field trips to the Crow Reservation, some of them as early as the summer of 1907. However, owing to the pressure of work on other phases of Crow culture, a systematic attempt to collect folklore only dates back to 114, The majority of the stories were collected in English from Indians of theL odge Grass district; a fair number were also secured in the original and will be published as texts at an appropriate time. A consideration of stylistic features is best deferred until then; doubtless many nice observations might be made by intensively comparing texts of the same tale from different Plains Indian tribes. The present collection, besides representing Crow fiction and helping to illustrate the religious thought of this people, suggests certain definite conclusions of an historical nature. It also indicates, however, how imperfectly Plains Indian mythology is as yet known and may stimulate efforts to supply the deficiency. A word may be desirable as to the comparative notes. At the present stage of inquiry it no longer seems desirable to cite all the extant parallels of widespread motives but only the historically significant ones. This will explain my restraint in this respect where many additional sources might have been mentioned, to the confusion rather than the enlightenment of the reader. For the Kutenai references I am indebted toP rofessor Boas, whose collection was kindly placed at my disposal. It is to be published as Bulletin 59 of theB ureau of American Ethnology. Robert H. Lowie. September,(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to r

Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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The Tobacco Society of the Crow Indians

Americas

Robert H.Lowie, Ethnologist: A Personal Record

University of California Press

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Primitive Society

Essays & Correspondence

Kessinger Publishing

The Religion Of The Crow Indians (1922)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

First published in 1954, Robert H. Lowie's Indians of the Plains surveys in a lucid and concise fashion the history and culture of the Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. The author visited various tribes from 1906 to 1931, observing them carefully, participating in their lifeways, studying their languages, and listening to their legends and tales. After a half century of study, Lowie wrote this book, praised by anthropologists as the synthesis of a lifetime's work. 
A preface by Raymond J. DeMallie situates the book in the history of American anthropology and describes information and changes in interpretation that have emerged since Indians of the Plains first appeared.

Indians of the Plains

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University Of Nebraska Press

First published in 1954, Robert H. Lowie's Indians of the Plains surveys in a lucid and concise fashion the history and culture of the Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. The author visited various tribes from 1906 to 1931, observing them carefully, participating in their lifeways, studying their languages, and listening to their legends and tales. After a half century of study, Lowie wrote this book, praised by anthropologists as the synthesis of a lifetime's work. 
A preface by Raymond J. DeMallie situates the book in the history of American anthropology and describes information and changes in interpretation that have emerged since Indians of the Plains first appeared.

Bison Books

For nearly ten years between 1907 and 1931, anthropologist Robert H. Lowie lived among the Crow Indians, listening to the old men and women tell of times gone forever. Lowie learned much about what had been, and still was, a society remarkable for its variability and cohesion, and for its resistance to the encroachments of white civilization.
Written with clarity and vigor, Lowie's study makes instantly accessible what had taken him years to discover. He sacrificed neither personal sensitivity nor narrative skill to scientific scruples, but brought his scientific work to life. Crow religion, ceremonies, taboos, kinship bonds, tribal organization, division of labor, codes of honor, and rites of courtship and wedlock receive their due.
The Crow Indians is a masterpiece of ethnography, foremost for Lowie's portrayal of the different personalities he encountered: Gray-bull and his marital troubles; the great visionary Medicine-crow; Yellow-brow, the gifted storyteller; and many more.

The Crow Indians

Univ of Nebraska Pr

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