Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - E ppsx

Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - E ppsx

Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - E ppsx

... few farming communities formed in central California, Louisiana, Illinois, and Arkansas. But the Italian immigrants were mostly an urban group, with at least 85 percent settling in cities. Italy became a unified nation only in 1870; thus Italian immigrants generally felt only a weak identity with Italy and lacked an overarching cultural tradition typical of other im- migrant groups. This le...
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... degree to which members of each are assimilated into North American society. Other categories of Jews based on degree of religiousness include Hasidic (ultra-Orthodox) Jews, Reconstructionalists, and "Civil" Jews. As mentioned above, Jews arrived in North America in waves, largely from European nations and these places of an- cestry are used to delineate one Jew or gro...
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Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - Overview ppt

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... and formal means of resolving conflicts. RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE Religious Beliefs. The nature of religious beliefs including beliefs in supernatural entities, traditional beliefs, and the ef- fects of major religions. Religious Practitioners. The types, sources of power, and ac- tivities of religious specialists such as shamans and priests. Ceremonies. The nature, type, and...
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... more ambitious, larger ships with spe- cially built 'slave galleries" were commissioned. These galler- ies between the decks were no more than eighteen inches in height. Each African was allotted no more than a sixteen- inch wide and five-and-a-half-foot-long space for the many weeks or months of the Atlantic crossing. Here the Africans were forced to lie down shackled together in...
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... Edward E. Haas, 3-3 1. New Orleans: Louisiana State Museum. Jacobs, Claude F. (198). "Spirit Guides and Possession in the New Orleans Black Spiritual Churches." Journal of American Folklore, 102(403):4 5-6 7. Neumann, Ingrid (1985). Le Creole de Breaux Bridge, Louisiane. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag. Spitzer, Nicholas R. (1984). Zydeco: Creole Music and Cul- ture in Rural L...
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Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - C docx

Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - C docx

... the nine- teenth century they formed a class of wealthy, educated, and acculturated planters set apart from full-blood Cherokee by language, religion, life-style, and values. This class division persists in contemporary Cherokee society. Political Organization. Prior to contact with Europeans each town was politically independent from the others and had two distinct governmental structures-...
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Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - D ppt

... he was riding from Brilliant, B.C., to Grand Forks, B.C. The event deeply scarred Douk- hobor views of their new country and compounded their his- toric fear of secular governments. Not until three years later did Gospodnie's son Peter Chistiakov (Purger) travel from Russia to Canada to take control of the ccuB. Intending Doukhobor reunification, he organized a blanket structure, t...
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... 130 Fox. Today, an elected tribal council of seven members meets monthly to manage tribal affairs. Social Control and Conflict. In addition to enforcing the decisions of the tribal council, the camp police regulated tri- bal movements and patrolled the campgrounds during bison hunts. Their unquestioned right to destroy the property of anyone who disobeyed them enabled the camp police to...
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Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - H doc

Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - H doc

... esoteric ceremonies and as clubhouses for men. Tradi- tional houses were built of stone and plastered with mud. Today, many people live in housing constructed of modem materials. 142 liefs persist-in reincarnation, ghosts, the power of shamans to cure some ailments, the efficacy of dreams and amulets, bad luck if certain taboos are broken. Religious Practitioners. Hare medicine men, o...
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... a variety of 'putting down" ceremonies involving presentation of food or gifts to mark rites of passage. Neither the Doll ceremony nor the Bladder ceremony has been performed since the late 1800s. Others survive only in simplified form or have merged with Christian observances. Arts. Working primarily in spruce wood, the Ingalik pro- duced a variety of masks, bowls, and cere...
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