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The Winged An Upper Missouri River Ethno-Ornithology

Series: Anthropological Papers Volume: 78
By: Kaitlyn Moore Chandler(Author), Wendi Field Murray(Author), María Nieves Zedeño(Author), Samrat Miller Clements(Author), Robert James(Author)
152 pages
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The Missouri River Basin is home to thousands of bird species that migrate across the Great Plains of North America each year, marking the seasonal cycle and filling the air with their song. In time immemorial, Native inhabitants of this vast region established alliances with birds that helped them to connect with the gods, to learn the workings of nature, and to live well.

The Winged integrates published and archival sources covering archaeology, ethnohistory, historical ethnography, folklore, and interviews with elders from the Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Crow communities to explore how relationships between people and birds are situated in contemporary practice, and what has fostered its cultural persistence. Native principles of ecological and cosmological knowledge are brought into focus to highlight specific beliefs, practices, and concerns associated with individual bird species, bird parts, bird objects, the natural and cultural landscapes that birds and people cohabit, and the future of this ancient alliance.

Detailed descriptions critical to ethnohistorians and ethnobiologists are accompanied by thirty-four colour images. A unique contribution, The Winged expands our understanding of sets of interrelated dependencies or entanglements between bird and human agents, and it steps beyond traditional scientific and anthropological distinctions between humans and animals to reveal the intricate and eminently social character of these interactions.
 

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Kaitlyn Chandler is an anthropological archaeologist with Randi Korn and Associates Inc., where she works with museums such as the National Museum of the American Indian. Previously she worked for the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Wendi Field Murray is a research archaeologist and collections manager at the State Historical Society of North Dakota. María Nieves Zedeño is a research anthropologist with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and a professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Samrat Clements worked as a research assistant with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Robert James worked as a research assistant at the School of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona.

Series: Anthropological Papers Volume: 78
By: Kaitlyn Moore Chandler(Author), Wendi Field Murray(Author), María Nieves Zedeño(Author), Samrat Miller Clements(Author), Robert James(Author)
152 pages
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"[...] Apart from a few minor niggles, the book serves its stated objectives well for both the indigenous and conservation communities. But more than this, I found it to be a fascinating window into the traditional beliefs and practices of peoples whose conscious agency has maintained and enhanced ecosystems and landscapes over thousands of years prior to the arrival of Europeans, whilst also introducing the reader to the value of ethno-ornithology for conservation."
– Andrew Gosler, Ibis 162(1), January 2020

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