Cosmology (Other Keyword)

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Re-Creating Primordial Time: Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gabrielle Vail. Christine Hernandez.

Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that, in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, mythological traditions in Mesoamerica reveal significant continuity, beginning at...


Sketch of Kalapuya Ethnography (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jan Peterson.

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Social Life and Ceremonial Bundles of the Menomini Indians (1913)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alanson Skinner.

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Socializing Novel Landscapes: Reconsidering "Colonization" through Indigenous Philosophies (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Sanger.

Archaeologists have long been interested in studying how landmasses became "colonized." Using biological analogies, archaeologists often describe colonization as a process by which ecological niches become filled by human populations that evolve to best fit into their new environs. This paper suggests an alternative informed by Indigenous philosophies that describe a world filled with animate and powerful beings emplaced throughout the landscape. Forging relations with these beings is a critical...


Tillamook Indians of the Oregon Coast (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Sauter. Bruce Johnson.

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World Views and Attitudes (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen D. Beckham.

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