Ethnic Tribal category: 190 books
by Timothy R. Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
The compiler Timothy Jenkins in his 1883 book "The Ten Tribes of Israel" gathers together a vast array of different facts, stories, legends, anecdotes, archaeological discoveries, language comparisons, etc., from a vast array of different sources to support the claim first propounded by...
Native Spirit
The Sun Dance Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
The words of Thomas Yellowtail, a revered Sun Dance chief of the Crow Indian tribe, are brought to life by the internationally known American Indian actor, Gordon Tootoosis. The book is illustrated with over 100 previously unpublished color and sepia photographs from as early as 1903 and traditional...
Song from the Forest
My Life among the Pygmies
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some funding from musician Brian Eno, he followed the mysterious sounds all the way to the Central African rain forest and found their source with the Bayaka Pygmies, a tribe of hunters and gatherers. Nothing...
Australian Indigenous Hip Hop
The Politics of Culture, Identity, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society. Focusing on the aesthetics, the language, and the performativity of Hip Hop, this book...
Black Elk Speaks
The Complete Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity...
Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game
At the Center of Ceremony and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it...
The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian
Commemorative Edition with Letters while Living with Black Elk
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
The writings of Joseph Epes Brown are considered amongst the most important studies on the North American Indian undertaken in the twentieth century. His works have been translated into numerous languages and are helping to re-ignite interest in the American Indian religious tradition. The Spiritual...
by Ernest Thompson Seton, Julia M. Seton
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
This commemorative edition contains for the first time Seton's drawings of American Indian motifs, a selection of photographs illustrating his life, information about his role as founder of the Boys Scouts of America.
Prophets of the Great Spirit
Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Prophets of the Great Spirit offers an in-depth look at the work of a diverse group of Native American visionaries who forged new, syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. By blending ideas borrowed from Christianity with traditional...
African Religion Defined
A Systematic Study of Ancestor Worship Among the Akan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This edition updates the scholarship on ancestor worship—with the addition of three new chapters. Beginning with Akan theology and ending with sacrifices, the study examines Akan conception of God, the abosom (gods and goddesses) relative to creation, centrality of the ancestors’ stool as the...
Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust
Africa in Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
In Dante’s Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust, Peter Geschiere masterfully sketches...
Recreating Africa
Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the...
Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya
The Sacred Book of the Maya
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.
Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya...
by Wade Baskin
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
A handy, comprehensive guide to a wide range of topics relating to the awesome power and cult of Satan, in myriad forms and under many different names, from ancient times to the present. Distilled from hundreds of reliable sources, both religious and secular, the entries include men and movements,...