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Whale rider [videorecording] / by Barnett, John,1945-film producer.; Caro, Niki,1967-film director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)848520; Castle-Hughes, Keisha,1990-actor.; Coulson, David,1955-editor of moving image work.; Curtis, Cliff,1968-actor.(CARDINAL)848350; Gerrard, Lisa,composer (expression)(CARDINAL)848164; Haughton, Vicky,actor.; Huebner, Frank,film producer.; Narbey, Leon,1947-cinematographer.; Paratene, Rawiri,actor.; Sanders, Tim(Film producer),film producer.(CARDINAL)850025; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Ihimaera, Witi,1944-Whale rider.; ApolloMedia (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)848513; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)332237; Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH,production company.(CARDINAL)848272; New Zealand Film Commission,production company.; New Zealand Film Production Fund,production company.; Newmarket Films.(CARDINAL)848396; NZ On Air,production company.(CARDINAL)431239; Pandora Film (Firm),production company.; South Pacific Pictures (Firm),production company.;
Director of photography, Leon Narbey ; editor, David Coulson ; music, Lisa Gerrard ; costume designer, Kirsty Cameron ; production designer, Grant Major.Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis.The Whangara Māori people believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, believing them to be descendants of Paikea. But then a young mother dies in childbirth along with her newborn male son. His twin sister survives and the little girl, Pai, is brought up by her grandparents. Learning the skills of chiefdom from her uncle, Pai shows that she possesses a natural leadership ability.MPAA rating: PG-13, parents strongly cautioned for brief language and a momentary drug reference.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, Dolby digital 5.1, Dolby surround 2.0.BAFTA Awards, 2003: Best Feature Film.San Francisco International Film Festival, 2003: Audience Award Best - Narrative Feature (Niki Caro).
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Ihimaera, Witi, 1944-; Chiefdoms; Grandparent and child; Maori (New Zealand people); Whales;
Available copies: 40 / Total copies: 46
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Light on the path : the anthropology and history of the southeastern Indians / by Hudson, Charles M.(CARDINAL)127473; Pluckhahn, Thomas J.(Thomas John),1966-(CARDINAL)280820; Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn,1955-(CARDINAL)280819;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-269) and index.Introduction / Thomas J. Pluckhahn [and others] -- The nature of Mississippian regional systems / David J. Hally -- Lithics, shellfish, and beavers / Mark Williams and Scott Jones -- The Cussita migration legend : history, ideology, and the politics of mythmaking / Steven C. Hahn -- Coalescent societies / Stephen A. Kowalewski -- "A bold and warlike people" : the basis of Westo power / Eric Bowne -- New light on the Tsali affair / William Martin Jurgelski -- "A sprightly lover is the most prevailing missionary" : intermarriage between Europeans and Indians in the eighteenth-century South / Theda Perdue -- The historic period transformation of Mississippian societies / Adam King -- Bridging prehistory and history in the southeast : evaluating the utility of the acculturation concept / John E. Worth -- Creating the shatter zone : Indian slave traders and the collapse of the southeastern chiefdoms / Robbie Ethridge.Publisher description: A seamless social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history. The past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory and history to fashion a seamless social history that includes not only the 16th-century Late Mississippian period and the 18th-century colonial period but also the largely forgotten--and critically important--century in between. The shift is in part methodological, for it involves combining methods from anthropology, history, and archaeology. It is also conceptual and theoretical, employing historical and archaeological data to reconstruct broad patterns of history--not just political history with Native Americans as a backdrop, nor simply an archaeology with added historical specificity, but a true social history of the Southeastern Indians, spanning their entire existence in the American South. The scholarship underlying this shift comes from many directions, but much of the groundwork can be attributed to Charles Hudson. The papers in this volume were contributed by Hudson's colleagues and former students (many now leading scholars themselves) in his honor. The assumption links these papers is that of a historical transformation between Mississippian societies and the Indian societies of the historic era that requires explanation and critical analysis. In all of the chapters, the legacy of Hudson's work is evident. Anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians are storming the bridge that connects prehistory and history in a manner unimaginable 20 years ago._ While there remains much work to do on the path toward understanding this transformation and constructing a complete social history of the Southeastern Indians, the work of Charles Hudson and his colleagues have shown the way.
Subjects: Festschriften.; Mississippian culture; Chiefdoms; Indians of North America; Indians of North America;
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Native southerners : indigenous history from origins to removal / by Smithers, Gregory D.,1974-author.(CARDINAL)313284;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-250) and index."Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Award-winning historian Gregory D. Smithers brings this world to life in Native Southerners, a sweeping narrative of American Indian history in the Southeast from the time before European colonialism to the Trail of Tears and beyond. In the Native South, as in much of North America, storytelling is key to an understanding of origins and tradition--and the stories of the indigenous people of the Southeast are central to Native Southerners. Spanning territory reaching from modern-day Louisiana and Arkansas to the Atlantic coast, and from present-day Tennessee and Kentucky through Florida, this book gives voice to the lived history of such well-known polities as the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Chickasaws, and Choctaws, as well as smaller Native communities like the Nottoway, Occaneechi, Haliwa-Saponi, Catawba, Biloxi-Chitimacha, Natchez, Caddo, and many others. From the oral and cultural traditions of these Native peoples, as well as the written archives of European colonists and their Native counterparts, Smithers constructs a vibrant history of the societies, cultures, and peoples that made and remade the Native South in the centuries before the American Civil War. What emerges is a complex picture of how Native Southerners understood themselves and their world--a portrayal linking community and politics, warfare and kinship, migration, adaptation, and ecological stewardship--and how this worldview shaped and was shaped by their experience both before and after the arrival of Europeans"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Indians of North America;
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The Powhatan Indians of Virginia : their traditional culture / by Rountree, Helen C.,1944-(CARDINAL)193748;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-206) and index.English observers and the Indian groups they saw -- The land and its resources -- Subsistence -- Towns and their inhabitants -- Manliness -- Sex roles and family life -- Social distinctions -- Law, politics and war -- Medicine and religion -- The Powhatans as a Chiefdom of coastal Algonquians.Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure and customs, the nature of rulers, medicine, religion, and even village games, music, and dance. Rountree's is the first book-length treatment of this fascinating culture, which included one of the most complex political organizations in native North American and which figured prominently in early American history.
Subjects: Powhatan Indians.; Indians of North America;
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Việt Nam : a history from earliest times to the present / by Kiernan, Ben,author.(CARDINAL)342369;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-586) and index.Chiefdoms -- Water, rice, and bronze: prehistoric Việt Nam -- Provinces -- Calming the waves: imperial conquest and indigenization, 221 BCE-540 CE -- Mountains and rivers of the Southern Kingdom: Annam and its neighbors, sixth to tenth centuries -- Kingdoms -- "Rice from the sky": assembling the spirits of Đại Việt, 940-1340 -- Smooth-flowing waters of government: the triumph of Confucianism, 1340-1570 -- Regions -- Inner and outer regions: contending shogunates, 1570-1770 -- Alternative unifications: rebellion and restoration, 1771-1859 -- Colonies -- "World trends" and French conquest, 1860-1920 -- Writing and revolution from colonialism to independence, 1920-54 -- Republics -- The American-Vietnamese War, 1954-75 -- The making of contemporary Việt Nam, 1975-2016.This comprehensive work traces Viet Nam's history, a narrative of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to contending regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics.
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Life of the Powhatan / by Sjonger, Rebecca.(CARDINAL)333016; Kalman, Bobbie.(CARDINAL)181024;
NC970LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Pocahontas, -1617.; Powhatan Indians; Powhatan Indians;
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Plain paths and dividing lines : navigating native land and water in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / by Taylor, Jessica(Jessica Lauren),author.(CARDINAL)889964;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Connections and borders in the Chesapeake -- The moving people and places of the Powhatan Chiefdom -- Watching carefully in the Bay, 1607-14 -- New borders, new connections, new fractures, 1615-44 -- Sailors and rumors in the bay, 1622-44 -- Trade, property, and the meaning of Algonquian places, 1650-60 -- Neighbors, local authority, and local violence, 1660-66 -- Rebelling by the bay, 1670-80 -- Epilogue : native history at dividing lines."... traces the ways in which English colonizers grafted their ways of ordering space atop Powhatan-ordered space in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake. As she argues, Natives and newcomers found landscapes mutually understandable, and this manuscript follows English and Algonquian attempts, from the quotidian to state-level initiatives, to capitalize on mobility along paths and rivers, and police legal and physical boundaries. This manuscript focuses on landscape and uses material culture and archaeology sources throughout, thus taking an interdisciplinary approach to recover everyday colonial experience and render earliest contact between Indigenous nations and English settlers in what became Virginia and Maryland in an entirely new light"--
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Peoples and cultures of the world. [sound recording] / by Fischer, Edward F.,1966-; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Lecture 13. Gatherers and hunters -- Lecture 14. Headmen and horticulturists -- Lecture 15. Cannibalism and violence -- Lecture 16. The role of reciprocity -- Lecture 17. Chiefdoms and redistribution -- Lecture 18. Cultural contact and colonialism -- Lecture 19. Cultures of capitalism -- Lecture 20. Is economics rational? -- Lecture 21. Late capitalism: from Ford to Disney -- Lecture 22. The Maya, ancient and modern -- Lecture 23. Maya resurgence in Guatemala and Mexico -- Lecture 24. The Janus face of globalization.Provides a survey of anthropology. A study of human societies and comparative customs with a special emphasis on pre-capitalist societies and the things which pre-capitalist societies and modern societies have in common.
Subjects: Anthropology.; Ethnology.;
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Powhatan foreign relations, 1500-1722 / by Rountree, Helen C.,1944-(CARDINAL)193748;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-294) and index.Who were the Powhatans and did they have a unified "foreign policy"? -- The Powhatans and other Woodland Indians as travelers -- The Powhatans and the English : a case of multiple conflicting agendas / Helen C. Rountree -- Human biology of Virginia Indians / Douglas H. Ubelaker -- Native American protohistoric interactions in the Powhatan core area / E. Randolph Turner, III -- Powhatan's relations with the Piedmont Monacans / Jeffrey L. Hantman -- The Powhatans and the Maryland mainland / Wayne E. Clark and Helen C. Rountree -- Relations between the Powhatans and the Eastern Shore / Thomas E. Davidson -- The Powhatans in the context of the Spanish Empire / Charlotte M. Gradie."Helen C. Rountree, one of the foremost authorities on the history and anthropology of the thirty Algonquian-speaking Indian tribes known as the Powhatans of Virginia, has assembled the work of ... contributors to provide a multifaceted look at these diverse and fascinating peoples. Powhatan foreign relations examines the Powhatan paramount chiefdom and its relationships with both European and Indian 'foreigners' from the perspectives of physical anthropology, archeology, history, and cultural anthropology"--Jacket.
Subjects: Powhatan Indians; Powhatan Indians; Powhatan Indians;
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The Polynesians / by Haywood, John,author(CARDINAL)592584; World Book, Inc.(CARDINAL)170438;
Includes bibliographical references (page 62) and index.Who were the Polynesians? -- How dod we know about Polynesian history? -- The Polynesians settle the Pacific islands -- Adapting to the Pacific environment -- Clans and chiefdoms -- Warefare -- mana and taboo -- Gods and myths -- Festivals and ceremonies -- Health and medicine -- Polynesian art -- Tattoos -- Entertainment -- Tools and toolmaking -- Seagoing canoes -- Polynesian navigation -- The family and children -- Making a living -- Houses and villages -- Clothing -- Food and drink -- Easter island -- Environmental disaster on Easter island -- Environmental disaster on Easter Island -- Hawaii -- the coming of the Europeans -- The colonial era -- The Polynesians today."A discussion of the early Polynesians, including who they were, where they lived, the rise of civilization, social structure, religion, art and architecture, science and technology, daily life, entertainment and sports, and fall of civilization. Features include timelines, fact boxes, glossary, list of recommended reading and web sites"--Provided by publisher.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Polynesians;
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