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Ethnology The scientific study of the origin and functioning of human cultures. It is usually considered one of the major branches of cultural anthropology, the other two being anthropological archaeology and anthropological linguistics. In the 19th cent. ethnology was historically oriented and offered explanations for extant cultures, languages, and races in terms of diffusion, migration, and other historical processes. In the 20th cent. ethnology has focused on the comparative study of past and contemporary cultures. Since cultural phenomena can seldom be studied under conditions of experiment or control, comparative data from the total range of human behavior helps the ethnologist to avoid those assumptions about human nature that may be implicit in the dictates of any single culture. See R. H. Lowie, The History of Ethnological Theory (1938); E. A. Hoebel,Man in the Primitive World (1949, 2d ed. 1958); Margaret Mead, People and Places (1959); Barton Schwartz, Culture and Society (1968); Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture (1973); Elvin Hatch, Theories of Man and Culture (1973).
General Ethnology
First Nations Histories
http://dickshovel.netgate.net/Compacts.html
Geographic Overview of First Nations Histories
http://www.netgate.net/~jsd/Compacts.html
The Americas to 1500
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay01.html
American Historical Images On File: The Native American Experience
http://www.csulb.edu/gc/libarts/am-indian/nae/
The Curtis Collection
http://www.curtis-collection.com/
Indians of North America: Theodore De Bry Copper Plate Engravings
http://www.csulb.edu/gc/libarts/am-indian/woodcuts/
Art of the American Indian Frontier: A Portfolio
http://glrain.cic.net/diapages.htm
Gallery of the Open Frontier: Native Americans
http://www.unl.edu/UP/gof/sp-ind.htm
Relations with Government and non-Natives
Contact: Europe and America Meet, 1492-1620
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay02.html
Aboriginal Law and Legislation
http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/ablawleg.htm
Kappler's Indian Affairs: Law's and Treaties
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/
Essays on Native American Life and Relations With Non-Natives 1600-1850
http://www.nativeweb.org/NativeTech/essays/index.html
European Contact and Indian Depopulation in the Northeast: The Timing of the
First Epidemics
gopher://marauder.millersv.edu:70/00/otherMU/columbus/data/ant/SNOWLAN1.ANT
Algonquin History
http://www.dickshovel.com/alg.html
Indians and the American Revolution
http://www.americanrevolution.org/ind1.html
In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan
Cultures
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/russian/russch0.html
Economic Activity
Crossroads of Continents
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/
Social Relations
Iroquois Women: Status and Role
http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~gidneyhc/index.html
Languages
Native American Languages
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/NALanguages.html
Windham County Algonquian Placenames as Locational Markers in Subsistence
Rounds
http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/ArchNet/Topical/Ethno/places/places.htm
Valence and Affix Ordering in Inupiatun
http://www.sil.org/silewp/1997/002/silewp1997-002.html
Religion and Ritual
Native American Spirituality
http://web.canlink.com/ocrt/nataspir.htm
Rituals of the Native Americans
http://138.202.168.1/ethics/group9/NativeA.html
Pow Wow Dancing
http://www.scsn.net/users/pgowder/dancing.htm
The Wandjina - Bringers of the Rain
http://www.wa.gov.au/muswa/soc_cult/anthrop/wandjina.htm
Traditions, Myths and Legends
Creation Stories and Myths
http://www.xs4all.nl/~swanson/origins/cstorymenu.html
Tales of Traditional Wisdom
http://www.reedbooks.com.au/heinemann/global/mythstor.html
Native American Creation Cycles
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/NACreationCycles.html
Indigenous Peoples' Literature: Stories/Fables/Legends
http://www.indians.org/welker/stories.htm
Native American Lore
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/loreindx.html
Aadizookaanag, Dibaajimowin: Traditional and True Native American Stories
http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/stories/stories.html
Indian Lore Galore (the Onondaga)
http://scholastic.com/public/Indian/ILore.html
Myths and Legends of the Sioux
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgibin/toccer?id=MclMyth&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/eng-parsed&part=0
Lakota/Dakota/Nakota (Sioux) Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/sioux.htm
Iroquois Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/iroquois.htm
Abenaki Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/abnaki.htm
Blackfoot/Piegan Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/blacfeet.htm
Aleut Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/aleut.htm
Against the Winds: American Indian Running Traditions
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/mcnh_running/default.html
Hn Mythology
http://www.yukonweb.wis.net/tourism/goldfields/hanmyth.html
Stories of the Dreaming
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/
Science and Knowledge
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
http://www.uaf.alaska.edu/ankn/IKS.html
Using the Berry Plants for Nutrition and Medicine
http://www.indians.org/welker/berry.htm
Recreation
NativeTech: Games and Toys
http://www.nativeweb.org/NativeTech/games/
Running in the Past: Games
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/mcnh_running/games.html
Native American Lacrosse Resources and History on the Web
http://www.e-lacrosse.com/na.htm
Lacrosse: An Iroquois Tradition
http://one-web.org/oneida/lacrosse.html
Technology and Material Culture
Native Americans and the Environment
http://conbio.rice.edu/nae/
Buffalo, the Life and Spirit of the American Indians
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/buffalo.html
Bison Roundup
http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/Newton/11/bison.html
Native American Homes
http://www.iserv.net/~educate/NativeAmerican.html
Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment: A Study in Indian and White Ingenuity
http://www.sil.si.edu/BAE/bulletin164/tptoc.htm
Woven Wampum Bead Work
http://www.nativeweb.org/NativeTech/wampum/wamphist.htm
Tree and Tradition: Brown Ash & Maine Native American Basketmaking
http://www.ume.maine.edu/~hudsonm/TemporaryExhibit.html
Trophies of Honor: Art Chronicles of Indigenous Peoples
http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/Gallery/Trophies/troph1.htm
The Native American Fine Art Movement: A Resource Guide
http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/defs/independent/Heard/rsrc/rsrctoc.htm
Gifts of the Spirit: Masterworks by 19th-Century and Contemporary Native
American Artists
http://www.pem.org/exhibits/spirit/default.htm
Native American Arts In Washington, 1889-1989
http://www.kcts.org/Columbia/native.htm
Monuments in Cedar: Totem Poles of the Northwest Coast at The Legacy Ltd.
http://artresources.com/features/articles/mlc.1.html-ssi
Sea Kayaking History
http://www.ool.com/misc.files/boats.pad.five.html
Particular Groups and Communities
Americas
Lewis and Clark Expedition 95
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/ModernStudies/HumSocSci/lc95/Welcome.html
Northwest Imagery: The Photography of Edward and Asahel Curtis
http://www.kcts.org/Curtis/exhibitm.htm
Special Collections in the Library of Congress: Edward S. Curtis Collection.
Photographs of North American Indians by Edward S. Curtis, early twentieth
century
http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/055.html
A Guide to the Great Sioux Nation
http://www.state.sd.us/state/executive/tourism/sioux/sioux.htm
Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin: Lakota Information Home Page
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~bucko/lakota.html
Cherokee History
http://www.netgate.net/~jsd/Cherokee1.html
Prairie Band Powatomi
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jsmckinn/prairie_pot.html
Inupiat of Arctic Alaska
http://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/HistoryCulture/Inupiat/
Journey Through Time: A Photographic trip through time of the Nunamiut of
Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska
http://www.nsbsd.k12.ak.us/villages/akp/jttime/jttime.htm
The Nunamiut Eskimo
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/academic/cult%5Fsci/anthro/Eskimos.html
Crossroads of Continents
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/
Australasia
New Zealand: Maori Renaissance
http://www.webstories.co.nz/nzbike/green.html
Crossroads of Continents
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/
Aboriginal Perspectives Kit
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/perspectives/index.html
Europe
The Smi of Far Northern Europe
http://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/HistoryCulture/samiindex.html
An introduction to the Sami people
http://www.itv.se/boreale/samieng.htm
Biography
Great Chiefs and Leaders
http://www.indians.org/welker/leaders.htm
Marginal Man: Tracing Five Generations of a Blackfoot Family (1850-Present)
http://www.indians.org/welker/margman.htm
Oskanondonha's Pipe: The Life and Cultural Patrimony of a Great Oneida
Leader
http://one-web.org/oneida/pipeindex.html
History of Sitting Bull
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/beaupre/promme924.htm |
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