ISBN:
9781541076709
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 222
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Journal of Northwest Anthropology. Memoir 14
Keywords:
Nordamerika Kanada
;
Washington
;
British Columbia
;
Indianer, Nordwest-Küste
;
Salish
;
Soziales Leben
;
Ethnographie
;
Ethnologie
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Pamela Thorsen Amoss is an important figure in the history of Northwest Coast anthropology. Influenced by Mel Jacobs and Erna Gunther, two students of Franz Boas, the "Father" of American Anthropology, Amoss developed significant relationships with native peoples as she worked to collect ethnographic and linguistic data during the second half of the twentieth century. Much of her research focused on understanding Northwest religions and social structure. Working collaboratively, before collaboration came in vogue, Pam strove to apply her anthropological skills and knowledge to benefit, not just understand, the people.Interweaving Coast Salish Cultural Systems: The Collected Works of Pamela Thorsen Amoss is more than just an assemblage of Pam's major contributions published over a 30-year period. In this volume, Pam contributes new material concerning her life and provides reflections on the native people with whom she worked, the anthropologists who influenced her, and the meaning of her work. These insights, along with letters and experience from her career, provide great insight into the history of Northwest Coast studies. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword / Maureen and Roy Carlson -- Preface / Jay Miller -- Editor's preface / Darby C. Stapp and Jay Miller -- Chapter sources -- Part I. My intellectual history -- Part II. Religions. Chapter 1. The fish god gave us: the first salmon ceremony revived -- Chapter 2. The indian shaker church -- Chapter 3. Resurrection, healing, and "the shake": the story of John and Mary Slocum -- Chapter 4. Symbolic substitution in the indian shaker church -- Chapter 5. Strategies of reorientation: the contribution of contemporary winter dancing to Coast Salish identity and solidarity -- Part III. Relationships. Chapter 6. Preface to Coast Salish spirit dancing -- Chapter 7. The Nooksack people -- Chapter 8. Coast Salish elders -- Chapter 9. Cultural centrality and prestige for the elderly: the Coast Salish case -- Chapter 10. The power of secrecy among the Coast Salish -- Chapter 11. A little more kin, and less than kind: the ambiguous Norwest coast dog -- Chapter 12. Hair of the dog: unraveling pre-contact Coast Salish social stratification -- Part IV. Reviews. Chapter 13. Melville Jacobs -- Chapter 14. Erna Gunther (1896-1982) -- Chapter 15. Myron Eells and the Puget Sound Indians -- Chapter 17. Dictionary of Puget Salish -- Chapter 18. Ancient Modocs of California and Oregon -- Chapter 19. Valley of the spirits -- Chapter 20. The Upper Skagit Indians of Western Washington -- Chapter 21. The Salish people: the local contribution of Charles Hill-Tout -- Part V. Reflections -- Part VI. References -- Appendix. Pamela T. Amoss Publications.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 200-218Literaturverzeichnis Pamela T. Amoss: Seite 219-222
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