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Jamake Highwater

Jamake Highwater Books

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Jamake Highwater, born James Howard Highwater, was an American writer, scholar, and artist. His work spanned various literary genres, including novels, poetry, and drama. Highwater is renowned for his profound understanding and rich depiction of Native American culture, which has had a significant impact on contemporary Native American literature.

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“Do not be deceived by them. They will tell you that they are good and that they wish you well. They will promise you many things that you know are impossible. Slowly, as you listen to them, you will hope for what cannot be. The Evil One will tell you that you must be something which you cannot be and ridicule you when you fail to become what you cannot become. That is why they are evil.”

Evil Hope Failure

Book:Anpao: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Timeless Native American Legend About Proving Worthiness for Children

Source: Anpao: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Timeless Native American Legend About Proving Worthiness for Children

“Your eyes and your brains have made prisoners of each other.”

Seeing Is Believing

Book:Anpao: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Timeless Native American Legend About Proving Worthiness for Children

Source: Anpao: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Timeless Native American Legend About Proving Worthiness for Children

“Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.”

Want Art Moving Cases Comfortable Familiar Accommodate

Author:Jamake Highwater

“Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.”

Art Feelings Failing Mankind Civilization Art Is Aspect Linked Urgent Pulse Staples Signs Of Life

Author:Jamake Highwater

“Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.”

Needs Art Names Language American Indian

Author:Jamake Highwater

“What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.”

Persons Self Moments Sides Adventure Victim Glasses Contempt Outsiders Norm Arbitrary Alienation Sanctions Recognise Validity Precious Gifts

Author:Jamake Highwater

“What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.”

Play Sex Achieve Ordinary Extraordinary

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“We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.”

People Art Audience Empathy Viewpoints Empathetic

Author:Jamake Highwater

“At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.”

Mean States Lying Common Movement Emotional Roots Dancing Dance Various Rational Impulse Manifestation Resorts

Author:Jamake Highwater

“The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.”

People World Stories Vision Generations Events Dancing Dance Western Folks Alternatives Primal Western World

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.”

Has Beens Art Conscious Dancing Dance Observation Works Of Art Transformed Motor Rite Discharge Involuntary

Author:Jamake Highwater

“In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.”

Mistake Watches Dancing Dance Careful Dancer Making Mistakes Ritual Wounded

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.”

Social Grace Wife Husband Dancing Dance Sake Routine Nobility Peasants Exhibits Husband And Wife Social Graces Future Wife

Author:Jamake Highwater

“Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance.”

Wanted America Doors Gay Europe Dancing Dance Establishment Disco

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.”

Persons Body Black Religious White Behinds Century Performances Dancing Dance Dull Dancer Comparison Astonishing Condemnation Inarticulate

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.”

Art Form Values Religious Century Expression Dancing Dance Corporate Ritual Avant Garde Avant Garde Art

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.”

Form Prayer Indian Dancer Costumes Eagles Inseparable

Author:Jamake Highwater

“We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.”

People Social Notion Granted Legacy Mentality Outsiders Constructs Insiders

Book:The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor

Source: The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor

“For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it”

Mean Mystery Celebrate Explaining

Author:Jamake Highwater

About the Author

Born: February 14, 1931
Died: June 3, 2001
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 19

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