Sam D Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 125078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam D Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam D |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Commodification: The Digital Political Economy of the Performing Arts
Digitization is taking over every sphere of life—including the arts. Through the process of digital commodity fetishism, major technology companies threaten to efface the very qualities that make creative expression—particularly the performing arts—distinct and meaningful. To resist or even question these forces, we must excavate an invisible digital politics that can displace (and replace) traditional sources of authority in the performing arts.…
The Glory Jest and Riddle: Jonathan Z. Smith and an Aesthetic of Impossibles
The late Jonathan Z. Smith was a central influence in the development of a study of religion on a par with the social and even natural sciences. This article reexamines Smith’s legacy for the inspiration to build a proper academic study of religion. It looks to Smith’s common use of jokes and riddles, grounded in his early studies of Frazer’s The Golden Bough , in order to tease out not simply stylistic or methodological concerns, but fundamental…
What the One Thing Shows Me in the Case of Two Things”: Comparison as Essential to a Proper Academic Study of Religion
Comparison is a fundamental operation in the milieu of the remarkable abilities of human beings to transcend themselves in acts of perception and the accumulation of knowledge. Comparison is holding together things that are at once the same and different. The very possibility of the copresence of same and different, of is and is not, is a gift of human biology and evolution. Humans compare because it is our distinctive nature to do so. Academics …
Jonathan Z. Smith ou la duplicité nécessaire / Jonathan Z. Smith and the Necessary Double-Face
Gill Sam D., Borgeaud Philippe, Barbu Daniel. Jonathan Z. Smith ou la duplicité nécessaire / Jonathan Z. Smith and the Necessary Double-Face. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°13, 2018. pp. 25-32
Climbing the Mountain: An Approach to Planning and Evaluating Public-Policy Advocacy
This article proposes a new methodology for planning and evaluating public-policy advocacy. The methodology is designed around a series of stages, each with a different set of strategic planning and assessment requirements. · The article suggests that both planning and evaluative approaches that fail to take account of the necessary stages required to develop and then implement an advocacy strategy will likely assign the wrong indicators of succe…
Executive Summary
Building on the concepts of venture philanthropy
"A Response to Hugh B. Urban's "Scholartracking: The Ethics and Politics of Studying 'Others' in the Work of Sam D. Gill
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 14, 219-225 RESPONSE A RESPONSE TO HUGH B. URBAN’S “SCHOLARTRACKING: THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF STUDYING ‘OTHERS’ IN THE WORK OF SAM D. GILL” S am D. G ill I am honored by Hugh Urban’s (2001) attention to my work, particu- larly its sweeping consideration of so much of it and by the fascinat- ing, though somewhat speculative, biographical angle which adds not only a bit…
Approaches To the Study of Religion
The religion department at the University of Colorado, Boulder re quires all incoming graduate students take Approaches the Study of Religion. The course has been taught every Fall term for over a decade by a variety of resident and visiting faculty. I taught the course for a three-year period from 1995-1997. There are many concerns in teaching such a course. Should it be a history of the discipline? Should it be a balanced survey of ap that dist…
Storytracking
This work takes a narrative technique (known as “storytracking”) practiced by Australian aboriginal people and applies it to the academic study of their culture. The book's purpose is to get as close as possible to the perceptions and beliefs of these indigenous people by stripping away the layers of European interpretation and construction. Techniques involve comparing the versions of aboriginal texts presented in academic reports with the text …
Storytracking: Texts, stories & histories in Central Australia
Storytracking is a work of theory and application. It is both a study of history and culture and of the academic issues accompanying the interpretation and observation of other peoples. Sam Gill writes about Central Australia, but, more importantly, he writes about the business of trying to live responsibly and decisively in a postmodern world faced with irreconcilable diversity and complexity, with undeniable ambiguity and uncertainty. Storytrac…
Irbmangkara
Close to the old station of Hermannsburg lie the four-mile running waters (as the European-Australians call it) of Irbmangkara, which provide irrigation to nearby plantation, drinking water, livelihood and food. It serves as the meeting place of different groups of individuals from all part of Arrernte and Matuntara since it is in a convenient and accessible location to all these places. Apart from these physical narratives, the area has its dark…
Making Them Speak”: Colonialismand the Study of Mythology
The Academic Study of Religion
The Academic Study of Religion Get access Sam Gill Sam Gill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 965–975, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.4.965 Published: 01 December 1994
Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography
Dictionary of Native American Mythology
Dictionary of Native American Mythologyincludes over 1,000 colorful, sometimes earthy, and always intriguing entries. Using the carefully chosen cross references, readers can quickly access the meanings of hundreds of elements of lore-from names, phrases, and symbols to images, motifs, and themes. Ten territory maps, which pinpoint exact locations of the tribes mentioned in the text, and a tribal index enhance this volume's usefulness. The biblio…
Religion in Native North America. Christopher Vecsey
Native Religions of North America
General/Theoretical Anthropology: The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol. James Jakób Liszka
Mother Earth: An American Story
Mother Earth: An American Story
Journal Article Mother Earth: An American Story. By Sam D. Gill. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. x + 196 pp. $24.95.) Get access Bruce David Forbes Bruce David Forbes Morningside College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 884, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901544 Published: 01 December 1988
Native American Religious Action: A Performance Approach to Religion
Mother Earth: An American Story
The earth is my mother, and on her bosom I shall repose. Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Earth is an ancient and central Native American figure. this radical and comprehensive rethinking, Sam D. Gill traces the evolution of female earth imagery in North America from the sixteenth century to the present and reveals…
The Power of Story
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sam Gill; The Power of Story. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 1988; 12 (3): 69–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.12.3.w42720x18l05x661 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers En…
Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition and Innovation
Native American Religions: An Introduction
Mother Earth: An American Story
The earth is my mother, and on her bosom I shall repose. Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Earth is an ancient and central Native American figure. this radical and comprehensive rethinking, Sam D. Gill traces the evolution of female earth imagery in North America from the sixteenth century to the present and reveals…
Approaches To the Study of Religion
The religion department at the University of Colorado, Boulder re quires all incoming graduate students take Approaches the Study of Religion. The course has been taught every Fall term for over a decade by a variety of resident and visiting faculty. I taught the course for a three-year period from 1995-1997. There are many concerns in teaching such a course. Should it be a history of the discipline? Should it be a balanced survey of ap that dist…
Native American Religious Action: A Performance Approach to Religion
Native American Religions: An Introduction
Prologue. 1. The Place to Begin. 2. Nonliteracy and Native American Religions. 3. Symbols in Action. 4. Roads of Life. 5. Ways of Life. 6. Tradition and Change in Native American Religions. 7. Concluding Remarks
Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts
Native Religions of North America
Sacred Words: A Study of Navajo Religion and Prayer
What the One Thing Shows Me in the Case of Two Things”: Comparison as Essential to a Proper Academic Study of Religion
Comparison is a fundamental operation in the milieu of the remarkable abilities of human beings to transcend themselves in acts of perception and the accumulation of knowledge. Comparison is holding together things that are at once the same and different. The very possibility of the copresence of same and different, of is and is not, is a gift of human biology and evolution. Humans compare because it is our distinctive nature to do so. Academics …
The Academic Study of Religion
The Academic Study of Religion Get access Sam Gill Sam Gill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 965–975, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.4.965 Published: 01 December 1994
Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography
Climbing the Mountain: An Approach to Planning and Evaluating Public-Policy Advocacy
This article proposes a new methodology for planning and evaluating public-policy advocacy. The methodology is designed around a series of stages, each with a different set of strategic planning and assessment requirements. · The article suggests that both planning and evaluative approaches that fail to take account of the necessary stages required to develop and then implement an advocacy strategy will likely assign the wrong indicators of succe…
"A Response to Hugh B. Urban's "Scholartracking: The Ethics and Politics of Studying 'Others' in the Work of Sam D. Gill
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 14, 219-225 RESPONSE A RESPONSE TO HUGH B. URBAN’S “SCHOLARTRACKING: THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF STUDYING ‘OTHERS’ IN THE WORK OF SAM D. GILL” S am D. G ill I am honored by Hugh Urban’s (2001) attention to my work, particu- larly its sweeping consideration of so much of it and by the fascinat- ing, though somewhat speculative, biographical angle which adds not only a bit…
Mother Earth: An American Story
Journal Article Mother Earth: An American Story. By Sam D. Gill. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. x + 196 pp. $24.95.) Get access Bruce David Forbes Bruce David Forbes Morningside College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 884, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901544 Published: 01 December 1988
The Color of Navajo Ritual Symbolism: An Evaluation of Methods
Color symbolism has played a major role in the interpretation of American Indian religion, with charts or cosmic maps usually illustrating the native classification of the world corresponding to colors. The study of Navajo religion has frequently focused on color symbolism, for example, the works of Gladys Reichard, Leland C. Wyman, and Louise Lamphere. A critical evaluation shows the merit and shortcomings of these authors' respective approaches…
The Color of Navajo Ritual Symbolism: An Evaluation of Methods
Color symbolism has played a major role in the interpretation of American Indian religion, with charts or cosmic maps usually illustrating the native classification of the world corresponding to colors. The study of Navajo religion has frequently focused on color symbolism, for example, the works of Gladys Reichard, Leland C. Wyman, and Louise Lamphere. A critical evaluation shows the merit and shortcomings of these authors' respective approaches…
Native American Traditions
Journal Article NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS Get access The Mountainway of the Navajo with a myth of the Female Branch recorded and translated by Father Berard Hatle, OFM. By LELAND C. WYMAN. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1975. xv+271 pages, 34 illustrations, 5 tables. $14.50. L.C No. 74-83333. SAM D. GILL SAM D. GILL Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Aca…
Hopi Kachina Cult Initiation: The Shocking Beginning to the Hopi's Religious Life
The Hopi kachina cult initiation had long been characterized by the whipping of the eight-to ten-year-old initiates. The whipping has been associated with receiving the disenchanting knowledge that the kachina figures are not “real gods, but merely masked impersonations made by mortal Hopi.” The record indicates that it is the shock of disenchantment more than the yucca switch that leaves a lasting impression on the initiates, yet the religious s…
Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts
The Religions of the American Indians
This book presents a comprehensive survey of the complex indigenous religions of the Americas, both North and South, as they were in the past and as they still exist in some societies
Sacred Words: A Study of Navajo Religion and Prayer
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A Review of Karl W. Luckert's Works on Native American Religions
Native American Religions: An Introduction
Native American Religions: An Introduction
Prologue. 1. The Place to Begin. 2. Nonliteracy and Native American Religions. 3. Symbols in Action. 4. Roads of Life. 5. Ways of Life. 6. Tradition and Change in Native American Religions. 7. Concluding Remarks
Sacred Words: A Study in Navajo Religion and Prayer
Sacred Words: A Study of Navajo Religion and Prayer
Mother Earth: An American Story
Journal Article Mother Earth: An American Story. By Sam D. Gill. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. x + 196 pp. $24.95.) Get access Bruce David Forbes Bruce David Forbes Morningside College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 884, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901544 Published: 01 December 1988
Native American Religious Action: A Performance Approach to Religion
Mother Earth: An American Story
The earth is my mother, and on her bosom I shall repose. Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Earth is an ancient and central Native American figure. this radical and comprehensive rethinking, Sam D. Gill traces the evolution of female earth imagery in North America from the sixteenth century to the present and reveals…
The Power of Story
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sam Gill; The Power of Story. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 1988; 12 (3): 69–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.12.3.w42720x18l05x661 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers En…
Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition and Innovation
Mother Earth: An American Story
Native Religions of North America
General/Theoretical Anthropology: The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol. James Jakób Liszka
Dictionary of Native American Mythology
Dictionary of Native American Mythologyincludes over 1,000 colorful, sometimes earthy, and always intriguing entries. Using the carefully chosen cross references, readers can quickly access the meanings of hundreds of elements of lore-from names, phrases, and symbols to images, motifs, and themes. Ten territory maps, which pinpoint exact locations of the tribes mentioned in the text, and a tribal index enhance this volume's usefulness. The biblio…
Religion in Native North America. Christopher Vecsey
Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography
The Academic Study of Religion
The Academic Study of Religion Get access Sam Gill Sam Gill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 965–975, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.4.965 Published: 01 December 1994
Storytracking
This work takes a narrative technique (known as “storytracking”) practiced by Australian aboriginal people and applies it to the academic study of their culture. The book's purpose is to get as close as possible to the perceptions and beliefs of these indigenous people by stripping away the layers of European interpretation and construction. Techniques involve comparing the versions of aboriginal texts presented in academic reports with the text …
Storytracking: Texts, stories & histories in Central Australia
Storytracking is a work of theory and application. It is both a study of history and culture and of the academic issues accompanying the interpretation and observation of other peoples. Sam Gill writes about Central Australia, but, more importantly, he writes about the business of trying to live responsibly and decisively in a postmodern world faced with irreconcilable diversity and complexity, with undeniable ambiguity and uncertainty. Storytrac…
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