Alice B Kehoe
Biographic Data
| ID | 78168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice B Kehoe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kehoe |
| SIGNATURE | KEHOE A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 86 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 408 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 84 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico’s Huasteca Veracruzana . By Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom
Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico’s Huasteca Veracruzana. By Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom. 2023. Denver: University Press of Colorado. 478pp. $97 (hardcover), $34.95 (paperback) $28.95 (e-book)
Archaeologies of Listening
Archaeologies of Listening
A Significant Article inEthnohistory
Those of us who work on the Northern Plains recognize the 1974 article by Susan Sharrock in Ethnohistory to be a breakthrough in understanding First Nations’ social formations in the region. Both legal usage of the two Anglo nation-states dominating the region and conventional histories assume that a half-dozen or so self-aware, bounded indigenous nations lived, and live, in the region: Blackfoot, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Cree, Saulteaux, Sioux …
An Anthropologist's Experience of Law School
Go Anthros
Can Native Voices Be Heard in Museums? Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian . By Jennifer A. Shannon. Santa Fe, NM: SAR, 2014
Permitido o excluido: La arqueología científica y el mantenimiento de los mitos de legitimación
‘Scientific’ archaeology advocated by mainstream American archaeologists since the 1960s has tended to narrow ‘science’ to what Kuhn termed normal science, that is, research constrained by a ruling paradigm. This paradigm is based on the Myth of Columbus legitimating European invasions, conquests, and dispossessions of American nations by asserting that until October 1492, the Americas were a wilderness inhabited by savages. European internationa…
A Comment on Zedeño et al
Inheriting the Past: The Making of Arthur C. Parker and Indigenous Archaeology . Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Boas as Hamatsa: Appropriate for the Medal for Exemplary Service to Anthropology Award
The Kensington Runestone: Approaching a Research Question Holistically
Repugnant Ethnoraphy
Association for Senior Anthropologists
Testing for “ShaDlanic Trance” in Rock Art: A Comment on Greer and Greer
Greer and Greer uncritically apply Lewis- Williams’ interpretation of rock art to pictographs in Dillinger Cave, Montana, apparently unaware of the model’s serious flaws
Commentary: When Theoretical Models Trump Empirical Validity, Real People Suffer
The Beast on the Table: Conferencing with Anthropologists, by Sydel Silverman. 2002. Walnut Creek CA: Altamira
Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1954
Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1954. Paul C. Rosier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 352 pp
"Agency" is the Buzzword, But Where Does It Work
On the Ghost Dance
No Political Funding
Eliade and Hultkrantz: The European Primitivism Tradition
Two Europeans, Mircea Eliade and Ake Hultkrantz, have inspired generation of academics and the public fascinated by the field of comparative religions. Intellectual brilliance, passion, vision-in short, charisma-mark these savants. So, too, does an arrogant cultural imperialism that denies full humanity to the first nations of the Americas. Eliade, and to much lesser extent Hultkrantz, have fed the romantic demiurge presenting American Indians as…
On an Unambiguous Upper Paleolithic Carved Male
On Giving Lubbock His Due
Women's Work: Images of Production and Reproduction in Pre-Hispanic Southern Central America [and Comments and Reply]
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
Women's Work: Images of Production and Reproduction in Pre-Hispanic Southern Central America [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeology of Aboriginal Culture Change in the Interior Southeast: Depopulation during the Early Historic Period
Members of Hernando de Soto's 1540 march through the interior of the southeastern US, as well as other explorers at that time, described encounters with complex and powerful Indian chiefdoms. Until this work by Marvin T. Smith, first published in 1987, scholars had argued about the role that Europeans played in the disintegration of that Mississippian culture. Rejecting the notion that the aboriginal nations acculturated to a European pattern, Sm…
The North American Berdache [and Comments and Reply]
The status of berdache among North American Indians was filled by persons, usually male, who remained members of their biological gender but assumed important social characteristics of the other gender. Concentrated in western and midwestern North America, berdaches were few. The status tended to disappear after Indian societies came under outside political control. Male berdaches, particularly, combined the social roles assigned to both genders.…
Women's Preponderance in Possession Cults: The Calcium-Deficiency Hypothesis Extended
The preponderance of women in spirit possession cults is linked with the likelihood of deficiencies in thiamine, tryptophan-niacin, calcium, and vitamin D in women in Old World traditional societies in which poverty and/or sumptuary rules restrict women's nutrient intakes more than those of men. The higher nutrient needs of pregnant and lactating women may exacerbate the inadequacy of their diets. It is postulated that involuntary symptoms of def…
Eliade and Hultkrantz: The European Primitivism Tradition
Two Europeans, Mircea Eliade and Ake Hultkrantz, have inspired generation of academics and the public fascinated by the field of comparative religions. Intellectual brilliance, passion, vision-in short, charisma-mark these savants. So, too, does an arrogant cultural imperialism that denies full humanity to the first nations of the Americas. Eliade, and to much lesser extent Hultkrantz, have fed the romantic demiurge presenting American Indians as…
The Invention of Prehistory
Revisionist Anthropology: Aboriginal North America [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropological discussions of North American Indians and archaeological interpretation of North American prehistory tend to be distorted by biases, some the "cant of conquest," others derived from the structuring principles of the European tradition. Tripartite schemata such as the Three-Age model and premises of oppositional dualism such as the contrast between primitive and civilized should be assumed to come from these structuring principles …
Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community [and Comments and Reply]
The Mursi are cultivators and cattle herders who live in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia and whose methods of measuring duration have so far been unaffected by contact with literate cultures. In this article it is shown how the Mursi solve the problem of relating a cycle of seasonal events to a nonintegral series of lunar months, while remaining unaware that this cycle is related, in fact, to the solar year. This analysis leads to t…
Observations on the Butchering Technique at a Prehistoric Bison-Kill in Montana
The analysis of the bone from a bison drive in north-central Montana corroborates the implications of White's analyses of bison bone from Plains villages: the heaviest non-meaty bone was left at the kill site, the bones rich in marrow were chopped up for marrow-extraction; even when many animals were available all were thoroughly utilized by the hunters. This excavation also confirms ethnographic data on season of drives, methods of butchering, a…
Cognitive Models for Archaeological Interpretation
Anthony F. C. Wallace's concepts of cognitive maps and of culture as primarily the organization of diversity are utilized to discuss the significance of a Wisconsin burial mound group, the Hilgen Spring Park site
Ceramic Affiliations in the Northwestern Plains
There are three prehistoric or protohistoric ceramic traditions in the Northwestern plains. The Shoshone tradition is represented by Great Falls ware, found immediately east of the Rockies in central Montana, and probably made by an eastern Plateau tribe. The Pisamiks tradition includes two wares: Ethridge ware in Alberta and northern Montana, probably made by the Blackfoot; Wascana ware in Saskatchewan, closely similar to Selkirk focus pottery i…
No possible, probable shadow of doubt
The 'fertility symbols' of Palaeolithic Europe run from unambiguous female effigies to shapes that may not be human at all. A view is taken of some of the forms that makes them into Mars rather than Venus
A Biofunctional Theory of Religion [and Comments and Reply]
Religion answers the basic question: What are the realities of the environment in which human existence is to be maintained? "Mythic" or "religious" thinking is a mode of understanding, a clarification of the environment. It is an explanatory apparatus which has evolved as a consequence of the evolution of the associational areas and their interconnections in the cortex of the human brain. Religious experience leads to a picture of the environmen…
Atlas of the North American Indian
Value Themes of the Native American Tribalistic Movement Among the South Dakota Sioux
In 1967 and the years following, many Sioux were beginning to question that assimilation into various social strata of Anglo American society was inevitable, and there was a tendency toward identification with the Sioux "tribal heritage." This tribalistic movement, the local expression of a general movement among Native Americans in Canada and the United States, appears to be having a profound effect on the values of the Sioux. It represents a cu…
The Ghost Dance Religion In Saskatchewan, Canada
The “Ghost Dance” religion taught by the Paiute Jack Wilson (Wovoka) was carried to Saskatchewan at the beginning of this century. Its most successful proselytizer was an Assiniboine who inspired the most northern Dakota Sioux community in the province to become a congregation. Surviving members of this congregation profess a creed that closely follows Wilson 1s later teachings, recorded by Mooney, but that differs significantly from the more mil…
Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1954
Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1954. Paul C. Rosier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 352 pp
The Function of Ceremonial Sexual Intercourse Among the Northern Plains Indians
Sexual intimacy as a means of transferring spiritual power appears to have been a Mandan-Hidatsa ceremonial trait borrowed by three Algonkian Plains tribes as part of the graded men’s societies complex. The Algonkian tribes modified the rite, which in the village tribes emphasized the role of father’s clan. The Arapaho emphasized the cosmic symbolism of the rite, the Atsina made it a test of self-discipline, and the Blackfoot stressed the dangero…
Lactation and Pregnancy
Boulder Effigy Monuments in the Northern Plains
IN September 1956, the writers visited an interesting aboriginal monument on the North Blackfoot Reserve near Cluny, Alberta, a few miles from Blackfoot Crossing. Our guide, a local resident named Joe Black Face Chief, led us four miles west of the bridge by which the road south from Cluny crosses the Bow River, down the bluff and into the flats bordering the Bow. Here, amid the grass of a haying camp owned by Many Bears, lay a human effigy outli…
The Kensington Runestone: Approaching a Research Question Holistically
Testing for “ShaDlanic Trance” in Rock Art: A Comment on Greer and Greer
Greer and Greer uncritically apply Lewis- Williams’ interpretation of rock art to pictographs in Dillinger Cave, Montana, apparently unaware of the model’s serious flaws
On the Herd-Following Hypothesis
Reply to Lewis and to Bourguignon, Bellisari and McCabe
Boulder Effigy Monuments in the Northern Plains
IN September 1956, the writers visited an interesting aboriginal monument on the North Blackfoot Reserve near Cluny, Alberta, a few miles from Blackfoot Crossing. Our guide, a local resident named Joe Black Face Chief, led us four miles west of the bridge by which the road south from Cluny crosses the Bow River, down the bluff and into the flats bordering the Bow. Here, amid the grass of a haying camp owned by Many Bears, lay a human effigy outli…
Ceramic Affiliations in the Northwestern Plains
There are three prehistoric or protohistoric ceramic traditions in the Northwestern plains. The Shoshone tradition is represented by Great Falls ware, found immediately east of the Rockies in central Montana, and probably made by an eastern Plateau tribe. The Pisamiks tradition includes two wares: Ethridge ware in Alberta and northern Montana, probably made by the Blackfoot; Wascana ware in Saskatchewan, closely similar to Selkirk focus pottery i…
Observations on the Butchering Technique at a Prehistoric Bison-Kill in Montana
The analysis of the bone from a bison drive in north-central Montana corroborates the implications of White's analyses of bison bone from Plains villages: the heaviest non-meaty bone was left at the kill site, the bones rich in marrow were chopped up for marrow-extraction; even when many animals were available all were thoroughly utilized by the hunters. This excavation also confirms ethnographic data on season of drives, methods of butchering, a…
Lactation and Pregnancy
A Hypothesis on the Origin of Northeastern American Pottery
Contributions to Anthropology, 1960. Part I
Aboriginal Pottery From Site Fhna-3, The François Le Blanc Trading Post
Aboriginal pottery excavated at a pedlar’s post, dated 1768-1774, is described and named the François Variety of the fabric-impressed type of Wascana Ware. The diagnostic feature of François sherds is the use of European cloth for impressing the vessel surfaces. It is suggested that the François Variety can be a hori-·zon marker for the early historic period in Saskatchewan
The Concept of Trait Constellations as Illustrated in Eastern North American Ceramics
Selected key traits are discussed as illustrations of the ceramic constellations of the Woodland and Mississippi traditions. Surface texturing is shown to be the dominant Woodland ceramic trait and an interest in vessel form, the dominant Mississippi trait. It is pointed out that the constellations outlined as characteristic of the two North American traditions can be observed in the early ceramic complexes of the Mediterranean region as early as…
Hunters of the Buried Years
A Worm's-Eye View of Marriage, Authority, and Final Causes or, What Underlies Structure and Sentiment
Ethnology: The Americas on the Eve of Discovery. Harold E. Driver
Comments and Replies
The Ghost Dance Religion In Saskatchewan, Canada
The “Ghost Dance” religion taught by the Paiute Jack Wilson (Wovoka) was carried to Saskatchewan at the beginning of this century. Its most successful proselytizer was an Assiniboine who inspired the most northern Dakota Sioux community in the province to become a congregation. Surviving members of this congregation profess a creed that closely follows Wilson 1s later teachings, recorded by Mooney, but that differs significantly from the more mil…
The North American Indians: A Sourcebook. R oger C. O wen , J ames J. F. D eetz , and A nthony D. F isher , eds
The Function of Ceremonial Sexual Intercourse Among the Northern Plains Indians
Sexual intimacy as a means of transferring spiritual power appears to have been a Mandan-Hidatsa ceremonial trait borrowed by three Algonkian Plains tribes as part of the graded men’s societies complex. The Algonkian tribes modified the rite, which in the village tribes emphasized the role of father’s clan. The Arapaho emphasized the cosmic symbolism of the rite, the Atsina made it a test of self-discipline, and the Blackfoot stressed the dangero…
A Significant Difference between Linguistics and Ethnographic Description
Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts
A Way of Seeing
The Selective Advantage in Infancy of the Human Thumb
A Biofunctional Theory of Religion [and Comments and Reply]
Religion answers the basic question: What are the realities of the environment in which human existence is to be maintained? "Mythic" or "religious" thinking is a mode of understanding, a clarification of the environment. It is an explanatory apparatus which has evolved as a consequence of the evolution of the associational areas and their interconnections in the cortex of the human brain. Religious experience leads to a picture of the environmen…
On Thumb-Sucking
The Metonymic Pole and Social Roles
Cognitive thinking uses key attributes to recognize phenomena. For both the Plains Cree and traditional Western (Euro-American) societies, the capacity for maternity is the key attribute for defining woman. This metonymic usage has stereotyped and restricted women's roles, specifically by preventing women from attaining the most prestigious healers' roles. Euro-American societies permitted females to become medical doctors only after the metonymi…
Cognitive Models for Archaeological Interpretation
Anthony F. C. Wallace's concepts of cognitive maps and of culture as primarily the organization of diversity are utilized to discuss the significance of a Wisconsin burial mound group, the Hilgen Spring Park site
The Identification of the Fall or Rapid Indians
An identification of the “Fall” or “Rapid” Indians of southcentral Saskatchewan as Hidatsa is shown to be unlikely; rather, the Fall Indians of the contact period were Algonkianspeaking bison hunters identified as Atsina
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
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