Research Catalog

Title

The four hills of life : Northern Arapaho knowledge and life movement / Jeffrey D. Anderson.

Author

Anderson, Jeffrey D.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2001.

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Description

xiv, 358 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

"For many generations the Northern Arapaho people thrived over a vast area of the North American Plains and Rocky Mountains. For more than a century they have lived on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. The reservation, the fourth largest in the country, is surrounded by vast rural lands and has been largely ignored by outsiders. As a result, the Northern Arapahos have been in some ways more isolated from mainstream American society than most Native groups." "In The Four Hills of Life Jeffrey D. Anderson draws together many different aspects of the Northern Arapahos' world - myth, language, art, ritual, identity, and history - to offer a compelling picture of a culture that has endured and changed over time. Arapaho culture is seen dynamically through the ways that members of the community in the past and present experience their unique world in everyday life."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Uniform Title

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Subject

• Arapaho philosophy
• Arapaho Indians > Economic conditions
• Arapaho Indians > Politics and government
• Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.) > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-343) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Northern Arapahos -- The Approach -- Arapaho Persons and Relations -- The Space and Time of Life Movement -- Childhood -- The Men's Age-Grade System -- Old Age and the End of Life -- Women and Life Movement -- A Total View of Life Movement -- Changes in Age Structure and Life Movement -- Arapaho Knowledge -- Euro-American Knowledge.

ISBN

0803210574 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00053686^

OCLC

45420362

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library