كتاب
Bringing Indians to the book
| العنوان: | Bringing Indians to the book |
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| المؤلفون: | Furtwangler, Albert, 1942- |
| بيانات النشر: | Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, c2005. |
| سنة النشر: | 2005 |
| وصف مادي: | xii, 226 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| سلاسل: | The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Indians of North America -- Missions -- Northwest, Pacific., Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Religion., Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- History., Missionaries -- Northwest, Pacific -- History., History. |
| الوصف: | "In 1831 a delegation of Northwest Indians reportedly made the arduous journey from the shores of the Pacific to the banks of the Missouri in order to visit the famous explorer William Clark. This delegation came, however, not on civic matters but on a religious quest, hoping, or so the reports ran, to discover the truth about the white man's religion. The story of this meeting inspired a drive to send missionaries to the Northwest. Reading accounts of these souls ripe for conversion, the missionaries expected a warmer welcome than they received, and they recorded their subsequent disappointments and frustrations in their extensive journals, letters, and stories." "Bringing Indians to the Book recounts the experiences of these missionaries and of the explorers on the Lewis and Clark expedition who preceded them. Though they differed greatly in methods and aims, missionaries and explorers shared a crucial underlying cultural characteristic: they were resolutely literate, carrying books not only in their baggage but also in their most commonplace thoughts and habits, and they came west in order to meet, and attempt to change, groups of people who for thousands of years had passed on their memories, learning, and values through words not written, but spoken or sung aloud. It was inevitable that, in this meeting of literate and oral societies, ironies and misunderstandings would abound."--Jacket. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm57549286 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-295-98523-7 0-295-98523-2 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-218) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.009787616.X |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780295985237 0295985232 |
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