Bøger af Anthony F. C. Wallace

The story of the Industrial Revolution as it was by experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania.

The poignant story of one of the Delaware Indians' greatest leaders is a classic of Native American studies. Using a psychological/anthropological approach that he largely invented, Wallace clearly demonstrates - better than anyone before or since - the tragedy of the Delawares' existence, caught between the English, the French, and the Iroquois.

Wallace takes us on a tour of discovery to unexplored regions of Jefferson's mind. There, the bookish Enlightenment scholar-chronicler of the eloquence of America's native peoples and mourner of their tragic fate--sits uncomfortably close to Jefferson the imperialist and architect of Indian removal.

Includes sixteen essays that illuminate the interconnections between cognition and culture and the formative social conditions of the modern world. Probing the psychological reality (or realities) of culture, this volume offers analyses of the cognitive foundations of kinship terms and the ability of cultures to process complexity.

A collection of essays on revitalization movements, which has profoundly shaped our understanding of the processes of change in religious and political organizations - from the nineteenth-century code of the Seneca prophet known as Handsome Lake to the origins of world religions and political faiths.