Embracing Fry Bread: Confessions of a Wannabe - Softcover

Welsch, Roger

 
9780803225329: Embracing Fry Bread: Confessions of a Wannabe
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803225326 ISBN 13: 9780803225329
Verlag: BISON BOOKS, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

When he was out playing Indian, enacting Hollywood-inspired scenarios, it never occurred to the child Roger Welsch that the little girl sitting next to him in school was Indian. A lifetime of learning later, Welsch’s enthusiasm is undimmed, if somewhat more enlightened. In Embracing Fry Bread Welsch tells the story of his lifelong relationship with Native American culture, which, beginning in earnest with the study of linguistic practices of the Omaha tribe during a college anthropology course, resulted in his becoming an adopted member and kin of both the Omaha and the Pawnee tribes.
 
With requisite humility and a healthy dose of humor, Welsch describes his long pilgrimage through Native life, from lessons in the vagaries of “Indian time” and the difficulties of reservation life, to the joy of being allowed to participate in special ceremonies and developing a deep and lasting love of fry bread. Navigating another culture is a complicated task, and Welsch shares his mistakes and successes with engaging candor. Through his serendipitous wanderings, he finds that the more he learns about Native culture the more he learns about himself—and about a way of life whose allure offers true insight into indigenous America. 
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roger Welsch is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the author of more than forty books, including Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales and My Nebraska, both available in Bison Books editions.

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Verlag
BISON BOOKS
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803225326
ISBN 13 
9780803225329
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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