| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

The Four Hills of Life: Northern Arapaho Knowledge and Life Movement. By Jeffery D. Anderson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xiv + 358 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $49.95; £34.00.)

     The Four Hills of Life is an extensively researched, carefully written, theoretically sophisticated and thoughtful cultural account of the indigenous Arapaho age-grade system. It is also a history and contemporary portrait of the contradictions within the Arapaho articulations with the encompassing and dominate Euro-American society. 1

     Synthesizing the ethnographic data that he has accumulated in his extended field of work of five and a half years, ethnohistorical materials, and linguistic analyses, Anderson explicates the subtle processual symbolic system of knowledge transmission that produced individual men's and women's life trajectories, which he calls life movement. In doing so, he offers an account of the total Arapaho sociocultural system as a finely tuned and ancient adaptation to the physical and human environment of the Great Plains. 2

     Anderson is interested in the connections between institutions, modes of artistic expression, styles of speech, uses of space, levels of knowledge, in sum, the different cultural registers within which combinations of the four central values of pity, respect, craziness, and quietness are realized. Throughout he reveals how these domains of culture are constructed, integrated and manifested in and as the lives, life stages, and life work of men and women. . . .

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