The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere, Vol. 1: Food Procurement and Transportation (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers)

Politics & Social Sciences

TRAVIS HUDSON

Thomas C. Blackburn

Social Sciences

Ballena Press

Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere: Food Preparation and Shelter (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers)

The explorers, the gold-seekers, and the settlers who arrived in California in the mid-19th century saw California as a wilderness unmodified by the Indians who lived in it. The authors of this book tell a different story. That landscape the newcomers saw was not a wilderness, not untouched by nature. It was a landscape carefully managed by knowledgeable people to provide them with food, clothing, shelter, fuel, and tools. It was a landscape where the wilderness came later after Euro-Americans had stopped the controlled burning the Indians had practiced, drained the wet meadows that had preserved the water supplies, and fenced off the areas where Native California women's coppicing had encouraged the growth of choice basketry materials. This is a book for those interested in the beginnings of agriculture, for here, in the salubrious climate of California, peoples who lived mainly by hunting and gathering had taken, by the eighteenth century, many of the steps that make up the technology of agriculture. This is also a book for those interested in learning better ways to manage our environment now. Our Forest Service and parks have already acknowledged the value of controlled burning. We may some day catch up with Australia, where the aborigines participate in the management of the national parks because of their special knowledge.

Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers)

Business & Money

Kat Anderson

Economics

Ballena Pr

Presents a first-hand ethnographic description of Tipai/Diegue±o communities of northern Baja California during the late 1940s, with information on tribes and clans, settlements, subsistence, material culture, social life, government, religious beliefs and practices, and healing. This work is of interest as a compendium of ethnographic data and as a primary historical source regarding the creation of knowledge in American cultural anthropology. Includes a separate b&amp;w map. Hohenthal taught anthropology at San Francisco State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Tipai Ethnographic Notes: A Baja California Indian Community at Mid Century (Formerly Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No. 48)

History

Lynn, Thomas

Jr. Hohenthal

Margaret Langdon

David B. Kronenfeld

William, D.

Americas

The verdict is IN on TIPAI ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES from SDSU Press: More than its title promises, Tipai Ethnographic Notes is a rich compendium of information on the Tipai/Diegueno communities of northern Baja California during the late 1940s. This is keen observational anthropology at its best...Hohenthal's account touches on virtually every aspect of Tipai culture, describing it as it was. This is... a vivid account of a living culture making its way into the 20th century while holding onto ancient traditions. Tipai Ethnographic Notes deserves an honored place on the bookshelf of every California and Baja California anthropologist. --Ken Hodges, Curator of California Collections, San Diego Museum of Man Tipai Ethnographic Notes is a salvaged treasure. It is a rich trove of ethnographic details native toponyms, kin terms, ancient enmities, and traditional material culture as experienced and remembered by the Tipai, a nearly forgotten people of Baja California... this work is o

Tipai Ethnographic Notes: A Baja California Indian Community at Mid-Century (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers)

Anthropology

Malki-Ballena Press

Over a century and a half ago, during the waning moments of the frenzied search for gold that was in the process of tragically altering California s landscape and the lives of her native peoples forever, an obscure artist named Henry B. Brown set out to capture in a series of beautifully rendered drawings the scenery and lifeways to be found in the Sierra foothills and Sacramento Valley. The result was a collection of drawings that depict both a world on the verge of profound change and the agents of that change. Here are pristine landscapes, Native Americans quietly going about their daily lives, turbulent mining camps, and empathetic portraits of some of the men and women that Brown encountered. While most depictions of Native Americans created at the time seem almost generic in their approach, in Brown s drawings the viewer discovers real people and is struck by the realization that these are specific individuals that one would recognize if they were encountered in a contemporary setting. An Artist s Portfolio contains 37 of Brown s finest drawings many never previously published or correctly attributed to Brown that attest to both his skill as an artist and his fundamental humanity. Thomas Blackburn has drawn upon the resources of several widely scattered archives to recreate Brown s portfolio and place his images in context, and in the process has rescued an almost forgotten artist from unwarranted obscurity.

An Artist's Portfolio

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

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