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The 1870 Ghost Dance
Cora Du Bois
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Description for The 1870 Ghost Dance
paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 illustrations, map, table, index. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of northern California. The spiritual energies of this “great wave,” as Peter Nabokov has called it, have passed down to the present day among Native Californians, some of whose contemporary individual and communal lives can be understood only in light of the dance and the complex religious developments inspired by it. Cora Du Bois’s historical study, The 1870 Ghost Dance, has remained an essential contribution to the ethnographic record of Native Californian cultures for seven decades yet is only now ... Read more
The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of northern California. The spiritual energies of this “great wave,” as Peter Nabokov has called it, have passed down to the present day among Native Californians, some of whose contemporary individual and communal lives can be understood only in light of the dance and the complex religious developments inspired by it. Cora Du Bois’s historical study, The 1870 Ghost Dance, has remained an essential contribution to the ethnographic record of Native Californian cultures for seven decades yet is only now ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803266629
SKU
V9780803266629
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About Cora Du Bois
Cora Du Bois (1903–91) was the first woman to receive tenure in anthropology at Harvard University, in 1954, and did important research in Indonesia and India as well as California. She served as the president of the American Anthropological Society and was the author of many books, including The People of Alor, Wintu Myths, and Social Forces in the Southeast. ... Read more
Reviews for The 1870 Ghost Dance
“[Buckley] treats readers to an excellent overview of early anthropology and DuBois’s place in its development. . . . Graduate students and . . . upper division undergraduates would certainly benefit from Buckley’s primer followed by a reading of the actual text.”—Oregon Historical Quarterly "Since it was first published in 1939, The 1870 Ghost Dance has long been unavailable to ... Read more