Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6642&N=3+7104+6658 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551830 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551831 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1528076 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551852 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238120 An exhibition of textiles at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona examines how the perception of Navajo weaving as an art from grew out of the sociopolitical context of the twentieth century, particularly the civil rights movement of the 1960s, when Indian self-determination, Native sovereignty, the concept of the individual artist and the power of artistic expression gained prominence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556137 Includes information on Africa, California, ethnography, geometric motifs, neuropsychology, origins of art, paleolithic art, religion, ritual, shamanism, symbolism, totemic rock art, trance, vandalism, weathering, etc. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556066 This photographic encyclopedia features more than 200 animals and the fibers they produce. It covers almost every sheep breed in the world. It also includes goats, camelids (such as alpacas, llamas, and vicunas), bison, horses, musk oxen, rabbits, and even dogs. Each entry includes photographs of the featured animal; samples of its raw fleece, its cleaned fleece, and yarn spun from the fleece; and samples of the yarn knit and woven--Publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527992 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1555999 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527294 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556138 To be from Appalachia--to be at home there and to love it passionately--informs the narratives of each of the sixteen storytellers featured in this work. Their stories are rich in the lore of the past, influenced by family, especially grandparents, and the ancient mountains they saw every day of their lives as they were growing up--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527990 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527987 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556106 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1550732 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624529 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238109 A recently recorded coup count, drawn between 300 and 400 years ago at the Bear Gulch rock art site in central Montana, provides insight into a little-known period in Plain Indian history in the form of an artist-warriors depictions of his military career, tribal position and status. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556015 The Great Basin, centering on Nevada and including substantial parts of California, Oregon, and Utah, gets its name from the fact that none of its rivers or streams flow to the sea. This book synthesizes the past 25,000 years of the natural history of this vast region. It explores the extinct animals that lived in the Great Basin during the Ice Age and recounts the rise and fall of the massive Ice Age lakes that existed here. It explains why trees once grew 13 beneath what is now the surface of Lake Tahoe, explores the nearly two dozen Great Basin mountain ranges that once held substantial glaciers, and tells the remarkable story of how pinyon pine came to cover some 17,000,000 acres of the Great Basin in the relatively recent past. These discussions culminate with the impressive history of the prehistoric people of the Great Basin, a history that shows how human societies dealt with nearly 13,000 years of climate change on this often-challenging landscape--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556096 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238024 Presents the research to date on the early souvenir art created by the Cree of the Eastern Subarctic starting in the early 1700s, focusing on examples now in museum collections around the world and the somewhat sparse written documentation, most provided by records left by personnel in the Hudsons Bay Company posts in the region. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1532552 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551871 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1535779 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556083 Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities. To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, a visual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140 Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories to examples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and values. Agreement Supplements at the end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although it touches on theory as well as practice, the Atlas is meant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, platform for social networking, and call to action.--M.I.T. Press Web page. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1237982 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556122 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556182 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527305 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556149 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238092 Reviews the work, life and complex relationship of Hopi artists Fred and Michael Kabotie, and suggests that although Michael down-played Freds influence on this work, his father was an important catalyst for Michaels development as one of the foremost Native artists of the twentieth century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527288 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556143 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556160 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527277 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1569028 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1528004 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556109 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1528071 Tells a timeless tale of the dangers of giving up something we love for the promise of an easy life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556163 Celebrates Theodore Roosevelt Dams centennial (1911-2011). http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556184 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551829 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238123 Initiative, collaboration, and creative experimentation transformed an emergent northern settlement into a thriving and internationally renowned art community. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238014 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551834 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238078 This collection of photographs marks the 40th anniversary of Pangnirtung weaving. The studio has become the largest hand-weaving studio in Canada and the weavers have earned an international reputation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1229406 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238051 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556145 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1237944 Examines the documentary value of nineteenth-century portrait photography as a source for dating the furthering stylistic identification of mid-nineteenth-century Haudenosaunee beadwork. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1237971 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551818 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551841 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551835 Exhibition shows the importance of the rulers of the Maya Classic period (250-900 AD), power, symbolism and divine, through the display of masks, grave objects, and funerary complexes of the rulers buried in five major temples of Mayan cities: Palenque, Calakmul, Dzibanch, Oxkintok and Rovirosa. The research and restoration of the 13 masks, allowed the identification in 8 of them the faces of nobles of the Classic period, possibly contributing to the rise of dynastic power of civilization, in the remaining 6, images of deities used to monitor the actions of the Lords Maya. In each case, the body and face of the rulers were reflected in elements that characterized and made possible identification, the incorporation of the funerary objects, in turn, gave them divine powers to confront the lords of death in the underworld and ascend to the celestial plane become the god of corn. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238096 Celebrating two decades of Inuit art donations to the gallery. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1237934 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1552610 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527972 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1555990 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1229415 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1229369 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1236567 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238016 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1532553 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238121 Recounts the history of the grillroom at New Yorks Hotel Astor, known as the Indian Hall, which, for more than thirty years, was not only a place to dine but was also an ethnographic museum, featuring Native American objects from throughout the United States. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551849 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551838 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551806 Describes the gods and goddesses in the ancient Aztec and Mayan cultures, and includes information on each dietys purpose, how they were worshipped, and how they were depicted in Aztec and Mayan art. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551862 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551809 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556043 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238082 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238031 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551836 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238115 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238080 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238131 Discusses the life and career of Navajo carver Charlie Willeto and proposes that his original and iconoclastic work defies both mainstream Euro-American and Navajo artistic conventions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551872 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556011 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551854 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238088 Illustrates and discusses a group of relatively large and rare Pueblo storage jars from the 1700s, which are subdivided by type names and Pueblos of origin. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556127 In Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture, Lee D. Baker examines theories of race and culture developed by American anthropologists during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. He investigates the role that ethnologists played in creating a racial politics of culture in which Indians had a culture worthy of preservation and exhibition while African Americans did not. Baker argues that the concept of culture developed by ethnologists to understand American Indian languages and customs in the nineteenth century formed the basis of the anthropological concept of race eventually used to confront the Negro problem in the twentieth century. As he explores the implications of anthropologys different approaches to African Americans and Native Americans, and the fields different but overlapping theories of race and culture, Baker delves into the careers of prominent anthropologists and ethnologists, including James Mooney Jr., Frederic W. Putnam, Daniel G. Brinton, and Franz Boas. His analysis takes into account not only scientific societies, journals, museums, and universities, but also the development of sociology in the United States, African American and Native American activists and intellectuals, philanthropy, the media, and government entities from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Supreme Court.-- Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556142 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238099 A travelling exhibition of over 50 handmade dolls created by Inuit and First Nations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556047 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556084 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1229370 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556120 To read this collection is to be reminded how much we have learned from Clifford Geertz, this trailblazer in cultural anthropology and interpretive social science. Two of the great qualities that made him a mentor in this field shine forth in this book: his constant awareness of the near-impossibility of the task of understanding the other without distortion, and the wide and humane sympathies that made him so often succeed in this very task.---Charles Taylor, McGill University This stunning collection---drawn from his earliest reviews to his latest lectures---brings us Clifford Geertzs stilled voice, commenting on the great intellectual and political movements and figures of our time and his own adventures as an anthropologist. Humorous, frank, and wise, with easy access to events and learning all over the world, Geertz urges us to observe and compare difference rather than construct grand schemes. Life among the Anthros and Other Essays is a copious gift to us as we try to understand the uncertainties of the past and prepare for the surprises of the future.---Natalie Zemon Davis, author of Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds A much needed collection. Its core is an excellent, judicious selection of Geertzs essays in the New York Review of Books over more than three decades, plus other key articles that he published elsewhere. This is a remarkable retrospective on Geertz that is not available elsewhere and that captures his public intellectual role acutely and poignantly.---George Marcus, University of California, Irvine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238135 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556053 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1528017 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1237997 Discusses the use of dentalium shells as currency by the Hupa, Yurok and Karuk of northern California, and describes the elk horn purses in which these highly valued shells were kept. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1237979 The formally trained artist is known for drawings and prints depicting stories and legends, and especially motherhood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556060 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238072 Reviews early contact period evidence about a relatively unknown Northwest Coast artifact type, the forty-two known black-brimmed hats in public and private collections worldwide, in order to offer a window onto the artistic expressions prevalent on the southern coast in the mid-nineteenth century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527328 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238122 Discusses the art workshops held at the Uqqurmiut print studio, Sept. 2009-Mar. 2010; and the oil stick drawings of four participants, Elisapee Ishulutaq, Jamasie Mike, Geela Sowdluapik, and Joanasie Papatsie. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238093 Introduces readers to Riel Benn, a young Sioux painter from Manitoba, as well as his alter ego, The Best Man, as presented in a series of paintings. A trickster, joker, arrogant fool, pessimist and romantic failure. The Best Man derives from many sources, the Lakota trickster Iktomi among them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551850