Authors:Jean-guy A. Goulet, Bruce Granville Miller, Johannes
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: field, transformations, anthropology, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0803259921
ISBN-13: 9780803259928

What happens when anthropologists lose themselves during fieldwork while attempting to understand divergent cultures? When they stray from rigorous agendas and are forced to confront radically unexpected or unexplained experiences? In Extraordinary Anthropology leading ethnographers from across the globe discuss the importance of the deeply personal and emotionally volatile “ecstatic” side of fieldwork. Anthropologists who have worked in communities in Central America, North America, Australia, Africa, and Asia share their intimate experiences of tranformations in the field through

Author: Richard T. Stillson
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: gold, rush, california, information, word, history, spreading
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0803243251
ISBN-13: 9780803243255

Spreading the Word examines the ways in which easterners who traveled West during the California gold rush of 1849–51 obtained, assessed, and used information. At the beginning of the gold rush the scarcity of information about westward travel posed serious problems for potential gold seekers in the East. Though most knew the trip was dangerous and that proper preparation could mean the difference between life and death, few had any practical knowledge of the vast deserts and mountains of the West or, for that matter, of how to mine gold. Information was produced quickly as newspapers, p

Author: Carolyn Podruchny
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: france, trade, overseas, studies, empire, fur, american, world, voyageur, travelers, traders, north, making
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0803287909
ISBN-13: 9780803287907

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popularly known as voyageurs. Scholars and public historians alike have cast them in the romantic role of rugged and merry heroes who paved the way for European civilization in the wild Northwest. Carolyn Podruchny looks beyond the stereotypes and reveals the contours of voyageurs’ lives, world views, and values. Making the Voyageur World shows that the voyageurs created distinct identities shaped by their French-Canadian peasant roots, the Aborigi

Author: James P. Ronda
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: empire, astoria
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1993-02-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0803289421
ISBN-13: 9780803289420

In his 1836 account Washington Irving immortalized Astoria, but it has been a footnote to the history of western expansion—a doleful reminder of John Jacob Astor’s failed attempt to establish a fur-trading empire at the mouth of the Columbia from 1810 to 1813. Now James P. Ronda makes clear the importance of the Astoria venture in large and complex struggle for national sovereignty in the Northwest. Astoria and Empire is the first modern account and assessment of Astor’s enterprise and the first ever to unravel the tangled skein of Astoria’s international connections. "On t

Author: Ben K. Green
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: pecos, west, doctor, horse, village
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0803270909
ISBN-13: 9780803270909

Ben K. Green takes us back to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as a practicing horse doctor along the Pecos and the Rio Grande. With precious little formal schooling but a perfect corral-side manner and plenty of natural wit, Green became the first to hang up a shingle in the trans-Pecos territory. Hear him tell the tales of his struggles with mean stockmen, yellowweed fever, banditos, poison hay, and “drouth.” His canny mix of science and horse sense when treating animals “that ain’t house pets” is 100-proof old time pleasure.

Author: Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: book, bison, prairie, rim
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1966-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0803250029
ISBN-13: 9780803250024

"A western story set in a small town in Nebraska on ’the rim of the prairie.’ The characters include a tantalizing heroine made more attractive by a hint of mystery, a steadfast hero, and two delightful pioneers."-Cleveland Open Shelf

Authors:Robert E. Bjork, John D. Niles,
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: library, modernist, french, handbook, beowulf
Number of Pages: 466
Published: 1997-02-28
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0803212372
ISBN-13: 9780803212374

The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history of the scholarly interest in a particular topic, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done. Written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience, A Beowulf Handbook will be of value to nonspecialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf and to scholars at work on their own resea