Native American Landscapes (eBook)

An Engendered Perspective

Cheryl Claassen (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1
408 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-254-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of essays focuses on what Cheryl Claassen terms the ';multi-vocal' landscapethe idea that different groups and genders look upon the same natural features but perceive different meanings and potential in what they are seeing. Through ten chapters, various contributors showcase the ways in which native peoples see, and interact with, the natural world. At the heart of this book is the idea that Europeans associated nature with the feminine and saw the natural world as a passive frontier to be dominated. Native Americans, however, looked at landscape differently. They saw nature as a place in which to engage in complex negotiations between spirits and humans. This approach to nature cemented a relationship to the land based more on a partnership rather than subjugation. These essays deepen our understanding of the interaction between native people and the land. While other books focus on the gendered gaze of European men upon the landscape, this collection emphasizes that native men and native women looked upon natural formations and constructed landscapes differently from one another, a difference in perception that is important for archaeologists and anthropologists to understand. While there have been advances toward admitting this more complex view in the rest of the world, Native American Landscapes is the first to focus on how native men and women viewed the world around them. Native American Landscapes is organized by region, taking readers across the country from the rock shelters of the Cumberland Plateau, in the east, to the Mojave Desert and the Mexican Gulf Coast, then north to what is now British Columbia and farther west to Hawaii. Readers of this collection, through a study of creation myths, vision quests, fertility shrines, and other ritualized uses of landscape, will learn more about the land and about humans' perception of our natural surroundings, which forms the bedrock of our present relationship with the natural world.CHERYL CLAASSEN is professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University. She is the author or editor of six books on Native American prehistory, including Feasting with Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley; Shells, Rituals, and Beliefs in Archaic North America; and Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 72 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: archaeology and anthropology • British Columbia • Cheryl Claassen • complex negotiations with nature • Creation Myths • cultural differences in nature perception • Cultural geography • Cultural Landscape • cultural perception of land • Cumberland Plateau • environmental anthropology • environmental consciousness • European and native contrasts • European views of nature • Feminine Nature • fertility shrines • gendered gaze • gendered perception of nature • Hawaii • human perception of nature • indigenous perspectives on environment • land as partnership • landscape interaction • Mexican Gulf Coast • mojave desert • multi-vocal landscape • native american landscapes • Native American Spirituality • Native American views • native cultural practices • native men and women perspectives • native peoples and nature • natural world interactions • nature and native spirituality • nature and spirits • nature as passive frontier • nature partnership • nature subjugation vs. partnership • Regional Organization • relationship with natural world • ritualized landscapes • spiritual engagement with land • spiritual landscapes • vision quests
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-254-4 / 1621902544
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-254-6 / 9781621902546