Thomas vennum jr (16 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. (Ojibwa Indians, Music, Criticism, History) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Extremely light shelf wear to edges of covers. Book remains tightly bound with unmarked contents.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Smithsonian Folklore Studies #2, Presentation copy by author--"For Geoffrey, who has been to the land of the drum. All best, Tom V." 320 pp. Map, illustrated. Slight spottin on outer tips of pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Zustand: Ver good. 1st Edition. book, cover and text all in very good condition, binding tight and square, few small spots on front cover, text clean and unmarked, signed and dedicated by Tom Vennum on title page, frontis ;William Bineshi Baker Sr. Ojibwa drummaker, illustrated. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Softcover. Zustand: Very good. 320p. Cover corners worn. Details the history of the dance drum, "one of five types of drums that are part of the Chippewa culture." [The Evening Telegram, Superior, Wisconsin, September 16, 1983] Includes bibliography. B&w illustrations and photographs. (9"x5-7/8").

dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 360 pages. Features text by Thomas Vennum Jr. Includes numerous illustrations. An about very good copy in cloth boards with some heavy bumping to the bottom right corner and some scattered foxing to the top edge of the pages and in a very good dust jacket with the same bumping. Despite the issues a solid copy of the much less common hardcover. ilssue.…

First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial heavy card wrappers; 104,[30]pp; illus. Tight, clean and Near Fine. A substantial program for the Festival's 20th incarnation. In addition to the festival program, includes an introductory essay by Robert Cantwell, and lengthy pieces on the participants, including articles by Archie Green ("Championing Crafts in the Workplace"); Richard Blaustein ("Moonshining and Herb Doctoring"); Joseph T Wilson ("Country Music in Tennessee: from Hollow to Honky Tonk"); Phyllis H. May ("Hogmeat, Corn and Catfish: Tennessee Foodways"); many others, concluding with a photo essay by Roland Freeman, "Afro-American Quilters from the Black Belt Region of Alabama.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Leinen, gebunden; türkisblauer Einband, Rückengoldprägung, mit farbig illustriertem Schutzumschlag / Anz. Seiten: 357 / 16 x 23,5 cm / mit zahlreichen Schwarzweissabbildungen im Text, 3 Faksimiles und 2 Karten / Zustand: sehr gut, geringe Gebrauchsspuren; Schutzumschlag leicht berieben Contents: The Plant, As Food, In Legend and Ceremony, Traditional Indian Harvest, The Camps, The Economics, The Law, The Future Sprache: en.…

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. No dust jacket present. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10 inches. xvi, 360 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographic Note. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads For Abbie Chessler, with best wishes. Tom Vennum April 1996. Traces the Native American history of lacrosse, describes its rules, equipment, techniques, and regional differences, and recounts legendary games of the past. From an early age, music and Madeline Island figured prominently in the life of Thomas Vennum Jr. There, on the island, he discovered a passion: Ojibwe music and culture. Vennum worked for more than two decades as senior ethnomusicologist at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife documenting Ojibwe culture and music in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Vennum Jr. graduated from Yale University and Harvard University. He fell in love with ethnomusicology and yearned to learn more about Ojibwe music. He sought the help of Ojibwe elders to learn about their traditional music and accurately document it. He penned scholarly books on Ojibwe music, wild rice, lacrosse's indigenous roots and on the life of Ojibwe singer Bill Baker. To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innards of lacrosse balls and medicine men gazed at miniature lacrosse sticks to predict future events, where bits of bat wings were twisted into the stick's netting, and where famous players were, and are still, buried with their sticks. Here Thomas Vennum brings this world to life. Excerpt from a review in the Great Plains Research Vol. 4 No. 2, 1994 Thomas Vennum, Jr.'s, American Indian Lacrosse is a welcome compendium of the cultural importance of lacrosse to Native Americans. Using an interesting arrangement of analysis and fictional narrative, the book examines the signal importance of lacrosse in Native American cultures throughout eastern North America. Played for centuries by many Native American societies, lacrosse has been co-opted by Anglo-America, reformed, rationalized, and ordered in a way that has divested it of the ritual importance it once found among Native Americans. Vennum's investigation re-animates a tradition that has withered among Native Americans who have been forced to abandon their cultures by Anglo-Americans. This timely account not only shows the significance of lacrosse as a Native American cultural tradition, but also affirms a renewed interest in the traditional game by Native Americans. Vennum examines the difference in the game as played by the Native Americans of the Great Lakes, eastern Canada, the Southeastern United States, and the Mississippi Valley. Among the Iroquois, the Choctaw, or the Ojibwa, the game took on different forms. Lacrosse sticks differed in size, in shape, and in the number used. The Choctaw and Cherokee, for instance, play a traditional game using two sticks, whereas the Native Americans of the Great Lakes and eastern Canada use only one stick. The size and density of the ball, the placement of a single goal or two goals, and the size and shape of the field varied as well. Integral to Native American lacrosse in the past was both its close relationship to warfare and the significance of gambling. Vennum shows that among all cultures the game was traditionally a surrogate for war. Conflict over hunting grounds or fishing rights could be averted as communities instead would arrange a lacrosse match. At times violent and characterized by individual skill, Native American lacrosse often included as many as eighty or one hundred players per side on fields as long as one mile. Matches, furthermore, were invested with ritual obligations that reflected the rituals of war, including fasting, dances, and conjuring. As early as the seventeenth century, Euro-Americans, seeing in the game only violence and vice, attempted to proscribe lacrosse among Native Americans. Canadians went so far as to deny the g.…

Washington Smithsonian Institution 1988 Softcover, 64pp., 21,5x27,5cm., richly illustr. in b/w., in good condition (covers with some traces of use and a bit foxing, inside in very good condition). The book functions as both a festival guide and scholarly anthology. It documents the 1988 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, marking the centenary of the American Folklore Society. The Massachusetts section explores layered cultural narratives- Wampanoag, settler, African-American, and immigrant traditions-highlighting how traditions evolve in new contexts. The Metropolitan Washington segment assesses cultural maintenance and reinvention among immigrants and diasporas in urban America. The inclusion of music and performance from the Soviet Union presents a cross-cultural exchange, demonstrating the global perseverance of traditional arts. The essays provide both historical framing and analytical reflections on the roles folklorists play in cultural preservation and community empowerment.…

Little Brother of War. Illustr. Washington 1994. XVI, 360 pages. Softcover. Bumped corner.[#129804].

Its History and Construction. Illustr. Washington 1982. 320 pages. Softcover. As new.[#130085].