Ahxsi-tapina - Generous Man

[Dietmar]

There will be a new book out in early summer 2009, edited by Arni Brownstone & Hugh Dempsey and published by Tatanka Press with essays by many prominent international historians:
www.tatankapress.com/

Ahxsi-tapina – Generous Man

Essays in Memory of Colin Taylor, Plains Indian Ethnologist

Prof. Raymond DeMallie: Lakota Robes: Classifying Material Culture
Winfield Coleman: Blood Lines: Hunting Magic of Plains Algonquians
Ted Brasser: Of Stars and Butterflies
Kingsley Bray: Making the Sichangu Hoop: Brule Tribal Organization
Arni Brownstone: Compositon and Iconography in Painted Plains Indian Shirts
Cath Oberholzer: Myth and Material Culture Among the James Bay Cree
Paula R. Fleming: Photographing the Plains Indians: Ridgeway Glover at Forts Laramie and Phil Kearny, 1866
Imre Nagy: Yellow Nose, the Enigmatic Artist of the Cheyennes
Allen Chronister: The Chief´s Coat: Art and Life on the Upper Missouri
Paul Raczka: Travelling with Spiritual Power
Hugh Dempsey: Visitors of the Blackfoot Prior to 1860
Donald Smith: A Day in the Life of Honore Jaxon, Louis´Riel Secretary
Andrew Masich & David Halaas: Clash of the Empires
Fraser J. Pakes: Stealing the Culture – with Sensitivity? The Indian Hobbyist at the Powwow
Stuart Connor: Travelling with Colin
Ian West: Out West with Colin

ISBN 3-978-89510-125-0
(price: 50,- Euros)

As you see, a lot of interesting essays. I´m sure some of you can´t wait for Kingsley Bray´s Brule article.

I also wonder if Paula Fleming has discovered new information about Ridgeway Glover´s photographs.

[grahamew]

Is this the same essay printed in the People of the Buffalo, the two volume collection of essays as a tribute to Ewers edited by Colin Taylor (possibly with others)? I'm sorry if I'm a bit vague - or more than usual - but I'm away from my books at the moment.
www.westernerspublications.ltd.uk/WPL%20People%20of%20the%20Buffalo.htm


Did that catalogue for the German Sitting Bull exhibition that Kingsley was going to contribute to ever come out?

[Dietmar]

Hi Grahame,

it sounds as it is indeed the same article, maybe updated (?). I´ll try to find out...

The Sitting Bull catalogue is a disappointment. I´ll mailed to the museum many months ago and never got an answer. There was no catalogue when I was in Bremen and neither when a friend of mine visited the exhibition earlier this year.
I have been told that Feest is the reason, but that´s only what I heard...

Does anyone know more?

[grahamew]

Thanks.

[Dietmar]

Dietmar Kuegler from Tatanka Press/Verlag für Amerikanistik just wrote back that the article by Paula Fleming is not the same one as in "People of the Buffalo", but a follow-up of her previous work.

[grahamew]

Great. Looking forward to it. Better put in my order now!

[Gary]

This book is due out "before Christmas".

Contact Tatanka Press for further details.

Gary

[Dietmar]

"Generous Man" just arrived this morning! Looks promising...

More later

Dietmar

[Gary]

Mine arrived today. It looks very good. Quite pricey at 54.00 euros inc p+p, but I'm pleased with it.

Gary

[grahamew]

Please can someone give me a link to the web page? I can't find it on the Tatanka Press site.

Thanks.

[Gary]

Hi Graham

I had the link, but cannot find it now. Try e-mailing them. Although I think that it's quite expensive (it's the same format and size as one volume of "People of the Buffalo"), I would still recommend it.

Gary

[grahamew]

Thanks. Will do.

[Gary]

This is the flyer for the book (without the illustrations):

A new fundamental reference work on Native American history and culture:

Arni Brownstone & Hugh Dempsey (eds.)

Generous Man - Ahxsi-tapina

Essays in Memory of Colin Taylor, Plains Indian Ethnologist

In September 2004, Colin Taylor, one of the world’s most prolific Plains Indian ethnologists, passed away. His impressive work spanned a period of over 40 years in which he tirelessly researched, wrote, and lectured about history and culture of the North American Plains peoples.

A great number of publications bestowed him a unique reputation. Among his books are global bestsellers like “The Plains Indians” (with W. Sturtevant) as well as special studies like “Wapa’ha – The Plains Feathered Head-dress”, “Yupika – The Plains Indian Women
Dress”, and “Catlin’s O-kee-pa”.

His intellectual splendour as well as his heartfelt enthusiasm for the subject fascinated people in the Old and the New World. His scholarly impact on the ethnological scene can’t be underestimated. But beside his greatness as a scientist, Colin Taylor was a formidable human being. His friends all over the world always felt his warm humanness and admired his knowledge. The title of this volume reflects the view everybody, especially the Indians, had on Colin Taylor.

In this volume, some of his very best friends, prominent anthropologists and ethnologists, deliver essays linked with Colin Taylor’s lifelong work. The result is a collection of first rate scholarly papers which represent a wide range of Plains Indian subjects focussing on material culture, Colin Taylor’s most favoured field, edited by two Canadian anthropologists: Hugh Dempsey, the greatest authority on Blackfoot Indians, and Arni Brownstone of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, in collaboration with Colin Taylor’s wife, Betty.

The authors of this book represent a kind of “Who’s Who” of American anthropology. They gathered to honour a great scholar and his heritage.

Prof. Raymond DeMallie: Lakota Robes: Classifying Material Culture
Winfield Coleman: Blood Lines: Hunting Magic of the Plains Algonquians
Ted Brasser: Of Stars and Butterflies
Kingsley Bray: Making the Sichangu Hoop: Brule Tribal Organization
Arni Brownstone: Composition and Iconography in Painted Plains Indian Shirts
Cath Oberholtzer: Myth and Material Culture Among the James Bay Cree
Paula R. Fleming: Photographing the Plains Indians: Ridgeway Glover at Forts Laramie and Phil Kearny, 1866
Imre Nagy: Yellow Nose, the Enigmatic Artist of the Cheyennes
Allen Chronister: The Chief’s Coat: Art and Life on the Upper Missouri
Paul Raczka: Travelling with Spiritual Power
Hugh Dempsey: Visitors to the Blackfoot Prior to 1860
Donald Smith: A Day in the Life of Honore Jaxon, Louis Riel’s Secretary: Toronto, February 24th 1912
Andrew Masich & David Halaas: Clash of Empires
Fraser J. Pakes: “Stealing the Culture – with Sensitivity?” The Indian Hobbyist at the Powwow
Stuart Connor: Travelling with Colin
Ian West: Out West with Colin

This volume not only revives Colin Taylor’s enthusiasm for history and culture of North American Indians, it is a reference work of fundamental significance for the anthropological world. Each essay represents a contribution for research and understanding of the people of the Plains. The volume is richly illustrated.

The great scholar and artist, Bill Holm, contributed a special painting as cover, “Carl Bodmer Is Painting Mató Tópe”.

215 pp. Size 27 x 21 cm. ca. 160 figs., many in colour. Soft bound.

Euro 50.oo

We’ll add 4 US-$ shiping for surface mail (about 4 weeks) and 12 US-$ for air mail.

Tatanka Press
Dietmar Kuegler
P. O. Box 1332
D-25931 Wyk
GERMANY

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