Palomar College

American Indian Studies 105 

Fall 2005    

ReadingAssignments


 

 

 

Quarter CHAPTERS (please notice that a UNIT is not the same thing as a CHAPTER.
 1 Berlo* & Phillips: Introduction (Chapter 1; 1 - 35).
  Dozier:  Prologue, Identity, Family, Rock Art (10 - ?).
 2 Berlo & Phillips: The Southwest (Chapter 2; 37 - 69).
  Dozier: The Land, Food and Medicine, Bird Songs, Basketry, Pottery ? - 131), We Are Still Here (133 - 154).  Dozier: David Largo- A Cahuilla Potter.
 3 Berlo & Phillips: The Northwest Coast (173 - 207); The North (139 - 171); The East (71 - 105).
  Berlo & Phillips: The West (107 - 137); Twentieth Century Trends in Modern Native Art (209 - 239).
4 Dozier: Juan Rodriguez CabrilloAn Indian Outbreak Through a Glass Darkly.

 

Required Books: (click on the book titles to reveal study questions for the readings.)

Berlo, Janet Catherine and Ruth B. Phillips   (Hardcover $40; Softcover $17)

                  1989   Native North American Art.  Oxford University Press.

 Dozier, Deborah                                                           (Softcover $16 new)

                  1989   The Heart is Fire: The World of the Cahuilla Indians

                 of Southern California.  Heyday Press, Berkeley, CA.

Suggested  Readings:

Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel

1972    Temalpakh: Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants.  Malki Museum Press, Morongo Indian Reservation, Banning, CA.

Dockstader, Frederick

any       Indian Art in America: The Arts and Crafts of the North American Indian.  Any edition.

Fane, Diana, and Ira Jacknis, Lise M. Breen

1991     Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum.  The Brooklyn Museum and the University of Washington Press.

Furst, Peter, and Jill Furst

1982     North American Indian Art.  Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York.

LaPena, Frank

1985     The Extension of Tradition: Contemporary Northern California Native American Art in Cultural Perspective.  The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.

Taylor, Colin F., editor

1991     The Native Americans: The Indigenous Peoples of North America.  Smithmark Publishers, Inc., New York.

 

Sturtevant, William C., General Editor

 

1988     Handbook of the North American Indians, 25 Volumes.  Smithsonian

                Institution, Washington, D.C.

 

Whiteford, Andrew, and Stewart Peckham, Rick Dillingham, Nancy Fox, Kate Kent

 

1989    I Am Here: Two-Thousand Years of Southwest Indian Arts

        and Culture.  Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe.

 

 

 

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