American Indian Life (Classic Reprint): By Several of Its Students (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Pagan, John H.

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ISBN 10: 1440058148 ISBN 13: 9781440058141

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2012

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Excerpt from American Indian Life: By Several of Its Students

At that time, during the youth of this New Englander past middle age, few anthropological monographs on Indian tribes had been written, but it is doubtful if such publications are to be found in New England village libraries even to-day, and it is more than doubt ful that if they were in the libraries anybody would read them; anthropologists themselves have been known not to read them. Be tween these forbidding monographs and the legends of Fenimore Cooper, what is there then to read for a girl who is going to spend her life among Indians or, in fact, for anyone who just wants to know more about Indians?

From these considerations, among others, this book was conceived. The idea of writing about the life of the Indian for the General Reader is not novel, to be sure, to anthropologists. Appearances to the contrary, anthropologists have no wish to keep their. Science or any part of it esoteric. They are too well aware, for one thing, that facilities for the pursuit of anthropology are dependent more or less on popular interest, and that only too often tribal cultures have disappeared in America as elsewhere before people became interested enough in them to learn about them.

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Preface SHE always says she will come, and sometimes she comes and some times she doesnt come. I was so surprised when I first came out here to find that Indians were like that, the wife of the Presby terian Missionary in an Indian town in New Mexico was speaking, as you readily infer, on her servant question. Where did you get your impressions of Indians before you came here? From Fenimore Cooper. I used to take his books out, one right after the other from the library at New Canaan, Connecticut, where I grew up. At that time, during the youth of this New Englander past middle age, few anthropological monographs on Indian tribes had been written, but it is doubtful if such publications are to be found in New England village libraries even to-day, and it is more than doubt ful that if they were in the libraries anybody would read them; anthropologists themselves have been known not to read them. Be tween these forbidding monographs and the legends of Fenimore Cooper, what is there then to read for a girl who is going to spend her life among Indians or, in fact, for anyone who just wants to know more about I ndians? From these considerations, among others, this book was conceived. The idea of writing about the life of the Indian for the General Reader is not novel, to be sure, to anthropologists. Appearances to the contrary, anthropologists have no wish to keep their science or any part of it esoteric. They are too well aware, for one thing, that facilities for the pursuit of anthropology are dependent more or less on popular interest, and that only too often tribal cultures have disappeared in America as elsewhere before people became interested enough in them to learn about them.
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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440058148
• ISBN 13: 9781440058141
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 488