In Two Crows Denies It, R. H. Barnes undertakes an ambitious historical analysis of anthropological scholarship about Omaha kinship systems. His groundbreaking work offers a critique of this established scholarship, including the work of Lévi-Strauss, Dorsey, and Fletcher. In comparing the primary and secondary accounts of Omaha descent, relationship, and naming systems, Barnes reveals the dissonance between the reality of Omaha society and the scholarship that has formed around it. Not only does he put forth a new and more realistic interpretation of Omaha sociology specifically, but in so doing he provides a reinterpretation of an aspect of anthropological theory. This edition includes a new introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie.
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"A major contribution to kinship studies and one which will certainly lead many of us—including myself—to qualify their interpretations."—Claude Lévi-Strauss
(Claude L���vi-Strauss )"A major contribution to the study of kinship, comparative ethnology, and the sociology of anthropological knowledge. The book deserves careful attention by anyone interested in the nature of anthropological inquiry."—Plains Anthropologist
(Plains Anthropologist )"An important contribution to the anthropological literature of American Indian social systems."—American Indian Culture and Research Journal
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R. H. Barnes is a professor of anthropology at Oxford University, specializing in North American and Southeast Asian social anthropology. His publications include Sea Hunters of Indonesia: Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera.
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The Omahas, a small community of American Indians now situated on a reservation in northern Nebraska, have had a long-continued and significant influence on anthropology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kie names, two subclans, dispersed alliance, same subclan, head chieftainship, prescriptive societies, tribal pipes, marriage prescription, genealogical relatives, white buffalo hide, allotment papers, tribal circle, genealogical level, complementary filiation, dark chiefs, relationship terminology, marriage prohibitions, cousin terms, descent groups, clan division, annual hunt, seven chiefs, parallel cousins, marriage restrictions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Big Elk, Two Crows, Joseph La Flesche, Flashing Eyes, Deer Head, Standing Hawk, Big Eyes, Buffalo Tail, White Elk, Crow Omaha, Francis La Flesche, Alice Fletcher, Big Rabbit, Red Dung, Children Owners, North America, United States, William Thomas, American Indian, Earth Makers, Iron Eye, Logan Fontenelle, George Miller, Little Bow, Little Buffalo Horns New!
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kie names, two subclans, dispersed alliance, same subclan, head chieftainship, prescriptive societies, tribal pipes, marriage prescription, genealogical relatives, white buffalo hide, allotment papers, tribal circle, genealogical level, complementary filiation, dark chiefs, relationship terminology, marriage prohibitions, cousin terms, descent groups, clan division, annual hunt, seven chiefs, parallel cousins, marriage restrictions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Big Elk, Two Crows, Joseph La Flesche, Flashing Eyes, Deer Head, Standing Hawk, Big Eyes, Buffalo Tail, White Elk, Crow Omaha, Francis La Flesche, Alice Fletcher, Big Rabbit, Red Dung, Children Owners, North America, United States, William Thomas, American Indian, Earth Makers, Iron Eye, Logan Fontenelle, George Miller, Little Bow, Little Buffalo Horns New!
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- The Omaha Tribe, Volume 1 by Alice C. Fletcher on 8 pages
- Omaha Sociology by James Owen Dorsey on 8 pages
- American Indians by S.E. Fletcher in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim in Front Matter
- Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Omaha Indians: The Big Village Site (Studies in the Anthropology of North Ame) by John M. O'Shea in Front Matter
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- Betraying the Omaha Nation, 1790-1916 by Judith A. Boughter in Back Matter
- Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan Laflesche Picotte (Trailblazer Biographies) by Jeri Ferris in Back Matter
- The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Works of Francis La Flesche (Civilization of the American Indian) by Francis La Flesche in Back Matter
- American Indian Persistence and Resurgence (a boundary 2 book) by Karl Kroeber on page 194
- Making History: Pukapukan and Anthropological Constructions of Knowledge by Robert Borofsky in Back Matter
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