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| Category: | |
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| Quantity Available: |
Only one in stock, order soon |
| Condition: |
Used; Good |
| Format: |
Hardcover |
| Author: |
marriott, alice |
| Edition: |
Fourth Printing |
| Language: |
English |
| edition: |
Fourth Printing |
| Number Of Pages: |
306 |
| author: |
Alice Marriott |
| binding: |
hardcover |
| format: |
hardcover |
| Publication Date: |
1948T |
| Subject Keyword: |
'historical', 'fiction' |
| Supplier Declared Dg Hz Regulation: |
not_applicable |
| ASIN: |
B000WE4G18 |
| manufacturer: |
University of Oklahoma Press |
| Generic Keyword: |
grandmother |
| Item Name: |
the ten grandmothers [ the civilization of the american indian] |
| Item Type Keyword: |
book |
| Product Site Launch Date: |
2007-09-25T18:52:05-00:00 |
| Unspsc Code: |
55111514 |
| brand: |
University of Oklahoma Press |
| Product Description: |
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| Item number: |
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Wear on the cover and edges. Shipped the next business day! We own a small family book store and sell our extra media that have been on our shelfs for too long.
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Product description: "Miss Marriott's book is based upon such a tribal history of the Kiowas, an important and tenacious nation of the southern Great Plains, for more than a hundred years. She has taken representative incidents from this story and built each into a unified narrative of personal experience, concrete and dramatic. The thirty-three narratives fall into four groups reflecting the major phases of Kiowa history in the last century; they are called, since Kiowa .economy was based on the buffalo, The Time When There Were Plenty of Buffalo; The Time When Buffalo Were Going; The Time When Buffalo Were Gone; and Modern Times. Since the same characters appear recurringly, the book has the effect of a loosely constructed novel. "Miss Marriott is an ethnologist. Her book is based on eight years of work with the Kiowas?work that certainly consisted of much more than superficial interviews with aged Indians. There is evidence everywhere, not only of accurate scientific knowledge of the material to be presented, but of profound human insight and understanding. "Miss Marriott is also a creative artist of extraordinary powers. Her book has abundant humor, drama and melodrama, beauty and sordidness, pathos and all presented sharply, objectively, with economy, restraint, and dignity. The narrative of the long journey of Wooden Lance, to see for himself and for his tribe whether the leader of the Ghost Dance movement (that inspired the last desperate, irrational struggle of the plains Indians against the whites) had 'true power is unforgettable in its simplicity and reality. The story of the Kiowa girl Leah's return from her years at a boarding school in the East to her family on the reservation is as true and socially significant as it is poignant and dramatic. "The great achievement of Miss Marriott's book is that it makes accessible to the reader of today the essence of a culture, a way of life and thought, now almost vanished from the earth.
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