1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910706813003321

Autore

Poore Richard Z.

Titolo

Multiproxy record of the last interglacial (MIS 5e) off Central and Northern California, U.S.A., from Ocean Drilling Program sites 1018 and 1020 / / by R.Z. Poore [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2000

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource ( pages) : illustrations

Collana

U.S. Geological Survey professional paper ; ; 1632

Disciplina

551.69794

Soggetti

Glacial epoch - California

Paleoclimatology - California

Paleoclimatology - Pleistocene

Paleoecology - California

Paleoecology - Pleistocene

Glacial epoch

Paleoclimatology

Paleoecology

Pleistocene Geologic Epoch

California

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Environmental and climatic conditions during the last interglacial (about 125,000 years ago) along the central and northern California coastal region are interpreted from study of marine cores recovered by the Ocean Drilling Program."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-19).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955651903321

Titolo

Landscapes of origin in the Americas : creation narratives linking ancient places and present communities / / edited by Jessica Joyce Christie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8173-8247-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChristieJessica Joyce <1956->

Disciplina

398.2089/97

Soggetti

Indians - Origin

Indian mythology - America

Sacred space - America

Indians

Creation - Mythology - America

Physical geography - America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Jessica Joyce Christie -- The Center of the World : The Principle People and the Great Smoky Mountains / Christopher Arris Oakley -- Xeroxed on Stone : Times of Origin and the Navajo Holy People in Canyon Landscapes / Polly Schaafsma, Will Tsosie -- Nuvagantu, "Where Snow Sits'" : Origin Mountains of the Southern Paiutes / Richard Stoffle, Richard Arnold,  Kathleen Van Vlack, Larry Eddy, Betty Cornelius -- Origin Narratives, Places, and Concepts among the 'Namgis, a Kwakwaka' wakw Group in British Columbia, Canada / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Malinalco : A Place between Heaven and Earth / Manuel Aguilar-Moreno -- The Map of the Province of Mani: A Record of Landscape and Northern Maya Lowland Concepts of Origin / Merideth Paxton -- Ancestral Presence at the Navel of the World : Francisco Sojuel and Santiago Atitlan / Allen J. Christenson -- Landscapes as Metaphor : Resources, Language, and Myths of Dynastic Origin on the Pacific Coast from the Santa Valley (Peru) to Manabi (Ecuador) / Patricia J. Netherly -- Inka Pacariqtambo : It Depends Which Eyes Are Looking at It / Jessica Joyce Christie.



Sommario/riassunto

Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points.   In conventional anthropological literature, ""landscape"" is the term applied to the meaning local people bestow on their cultural and physical surroundings. In this work, the authors explore the cultural and physical landscapes an individual or cultural group has constructed to define the origins o