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Prayer to the Great Mystery is a historic publishing event, a remarkable coup that presents 93 newly discovered photographs--along with 150 others--taken by Edward S. Curtis. Deeply human and symphathetic, these images embody Curtis's attempt to preserve the character is Native American Cultural life before its erosion by the nineteenth-century flood of American expansion. Accompanying the photographs is a poignant series of myths, abridged from Curtis's ethnographic writings. Prayers to the Great Mystery is a stunning account of a vanished era, and a seminal book for understanding our rich Native American legacy.
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Prayer To The Great Mystery, Edward S. Curtis
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- Année de publication
- 1997
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- Titre
- Prayer To The Great Mystery
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Edward S. Curtis
- Éditeur
- Macmillan
- Publié
- 1997
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 228
- ISBN10
- 0312169698
- ISBN13
- 9780312169695
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Histoire
- Description
- Prayer to the Great Mystery is a historic publishing event, a remarkable coup that presents 93 newly discovered photographs--along with 150 others--taken by Edward S. Curtis. Deeply human and symphathetic, these images embody Curtis's attempt to preserve the character is Native American Cultural life before its erosion by the nineteenth-century flood of American expansion. Accompanying the photographs is a poignant series of myths, abridged from Curtis's ethnographic writings. Prayers to the Great Mystery is a stunning account of a vanished era, and a seminal book for understanding our rich Native American legacy.