Kathleen Van Vlack

Datos Biográficos

ID98140
NOMBREKathleen Van Vlack
NOMBRESKathleen
APELLIDOVan Vlack
FIRMAVAN VLACK K
AFILIACIONESNorthern Arizona University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAS4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Celestial Light Marker

    Open AccessRichard W Stoffle, Richard Stoffle et al.ARTICLEArts2025

    Humans have been monitoring light from the solar system to tell the time and plan activities since Time Immemorial. This is an analysis regarding why Native Americans living in the upper Colorado River Basin chose to monitor light from the western sky using a light marker that is approximately 4.02 miles long and 2.07 miles wide, or approximately 12.7 square miles. The light catching is accomplished in a massive geoscape by carefully calibrated a…

  • Shamans, Portals, and Water Babies

    Open AccessKathleen Van Vlack, Richard Arnold et al.ARTICLEArts2025

    Delamar Valley is a unique landscape located in southern Nevada that contains places associated with ceremony and Southern Paiute Creation. This ceremonial landscape is composed of volcanic places, a large Pleistocene Lake, and an underground hydrological system that allows for the movement of spiritual beings known as water babies between Delamar Valley and neighboring Pahranagat Valley. Paiute shamans traveled to Delamar Valley to interact with…

  • Celebrating Creation on the Colorado River

    Open AccessKathleen Van Vlack, Richard W Stoffle et al.ARTICLEHeritage2025Referencias: 5

    Ancient figures and symbols are carved into a high rock wall beside the Colorado River, just south of where a traditional Native American geotrail crosses the river near Moab, Utah, USA. Based on ethnographic interviews with tribal and pueblo representatives, the rock peckings identify an ancient ceremonial geosite, which, among other purposes, serves as a site for the Celebration of Creation. The interpretation of the site is situated within the…

  • Storied Rocks

    Open AccessRichard W Stoffle, Richard Stoffle et al.ARTICLEArts2024

    Storied Rocks (Tumpituxwinap) is a term of reference used by the Numic speaking tribal elders whom we have worked with for over 60 years on an estimated 200 ethnographic studies. Key to this analysis are the protocols for approaching, interacting, and using the places where Storied Rocks have been located. Concomitant with these traditional protocols are ones established to resolve the curiosity of non-Natives about why they are in a particular p…

  • The Island Chumash

    Open AccessKathleen Van VlackARTICLETransforming Anthropology2010Referencias: 1

  • Landscapes of Origin in the Americas

    Richard Arnold, Merideth Paxton et al.BOOKLandscapes of origin in the…2009Citada por: 4

  • Timescapes in conflict

    Richard W Stoffle, Richard Stoffle et al.ARTICLEImpact Assessment and Project…2008

    This paper contributes an analog case for assessing cumulative impacts. An American Indian solar calendar was identified in the first large-scale power line environmental impact assessment (EIA) in an isolated region of southern Utah in 1983. That study identified increased access as a potential adverse impact, but that the solar calendar would be best protected by a commitment of silence. During the next 25 years, five utility projects were plac…

  • Landscapes of Origin in the Americas

    Jessica Joyce Christie, Merideth Paxton et al.

    Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points. In conventional anthropological literature, 'landscape' is the term applied to the meaning local people bestow on their cultural and physical surroundings. In this w…