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The Indian Captivity Narrative: An American Genre, Richard Van Der Beets
The Indian Captivity Narrative: An American Genre, Richard Van Der Beets
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The vast body of Indian captivity narratives is known mostly to historians, anthropologists, and collectors of Americana. In the rare instances where informed scholarship has turned its attention to the narratives, emphasis has been upon the historical and cultural rather than the literary value of the tales. The Indian captivity narrative has been most commonly viewed as but a thread in the loose fabric of American cultural history, consisting of several "popular," sub-literary genres shaped and differentiated largely by the society for which the narratives were intended. The intention in this study is not so much to overturn that view …
The Basques, Henry Camille Blaud
The Basques, Henry Camille Blaud
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Although the frontiers of knowledge in most fields have been pushed to the point where many people feel that the genius of mankind had solved all, an enigma still con- fronts the contemporary anthropologist and philologist: the riddle of the origin of the Basques and their language.
A Comparative Study Of The Prasada Complex And The Grace Of God, Jay R. Mccullough
A Comparative Study Of The Prasada Complex And The Grace Of God, Jay R. Mccullough
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
A word or word group lifted from its context incurs the grave danger of a misunderstanding ranging from the greatest excess of analytical dismemberment to an overgenerous and all-inclusive synthesis which tends to rob it of any specific identity or meaning. Considered not only from within the body of textual material which may frame a particular word, but from the ground of these physical, mental and cultural needs which give it birth as well as the motivating force or forces which seem to endanger it, it may be possible to develop a better understanding of its varying harmonic nuances of …