Handbook of North American Indians
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 829
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North American Indians
Author: Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 914
ISBN-13: 1351219960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in an easy-to-read, narrative format, this volume provides the most comprehensive coverage of North American Indians from earliest evidence through 1990. It shows Indians as "a people with history" and not as primitives, covering current ideological issues and political situations including treaty rights, sovereignty, and repatriation. A must-read for anyone interested in North American Indian history. This is a comprehensive and thought-provoking approach to the history of the native peoples of North America (including Mexico and Canada) and their civilizations.For Native American courses taught in anthropology, history and Native American Studies.
Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters
Author: Todd J. Braje
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-03-23
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0520948971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than ten thousand years, Native Americans from Alaska to southern California relied on aquatic animals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters for food and raw materials. Archaeological research on the interactions between people and these marine mammals has made great advances recently and provides a unique lens for understanding the human and ecological past. Archaeological research is also emerging as a crucial source of information on contemporary environmental issues as we improve our understanding of the ancient abundance, ecology, and natural history of these species. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume brings together archaeologists, biologists, and other scientists to consider how archaeology can inform the conservation and management of pinnipeds and other marine mammals along the Pacific Coast.
History and Ethnography of the Beothuk
Author: Ingeborg Marshall
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 0773513906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelations with Inuit, Montagnais, and Micmac are also discussed.
Native American Culture
Author: Kathleen Kuiper Manager, Arts and Culture
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2010-08-15
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1615301380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven as contact with European cultures eroded indigenous lifestyles across North America, many Native American groups found ways to preserve the integrity of their communities through the arts, customs, languages, and religious traditions that animate Native American life. The ancient cultural legacies that both distinguish and unite these diverse tribes are the subject of this volume. --from publisher description
A Tale of Three Villages
Author: Liam Frink
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016-04-07
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0816531099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The book is an investigation of culture change among the Yup'ik Eskimo people of the southwestern Alaskan coast from the time of European/Russian contact through the mid-twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
Muskox Land
Author: Lyle Dick
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 1552380505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.
Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Mark W Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1315415968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures. Their controversial conclusions will elicit interest among anthropologists, archaeologists, and those in conflict studies.
America in 1492
Author: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1993-02-02
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0679743375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, spoke as many as two thousand different languages, and lived in groups that varied from small bands of hunter-gatherers to the sophisticated and dazzling empires of the Incas and Aztecs. This brilliantly detailed and documented volume brings together essays by fifteen leading scholars field to present a comprehensive and richly evocative portrait of Native American life on the eve of Columbus's first landfall. Developed at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and edited by award-winning author Alvin M. Josehpy, Jr., America in 1492 is an invaluable work that combines the insights of historians, anthropologists, and students of art, religion, and folklore. Its dozens of illustrations, drawn from largely from the rare books and manuscripts housed at the Newberry Library, open a window on worlds flourished in the Americas five hundred years ago.
An Exploration of Prehistoric Ontologies in the Bering Strait Region
Author: Feng Qu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1527564320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book introduces readers to the belief and symbolism present in the prehistoric art of the Bering Strait region. For about a century, the archaeology of this area has mainly focused on material, economic, and technological perspectives, leaving studies of prehistoric spirituality, religion, and cosmology to be under-conceptualized. This text questions the nature of materiality, and the relationship between it and spirituality. It employs an analytical and methodological approach located within the frameworks of practice theory and animist ontologies to open up thought-provoking avenues for interpretive possibility. This book also provides new knowledge about the prehistoric material culture of ancient Inuit people, and offers an assessment of contemporary archaeological theories, such as cognitive archaeology, structural archaeology, and shamanism theory, in order to examine the reliability of these theories in the studies of prehistoric art. According to the ontological trend which has constituted a powerful challenge to traditional nature/culture and body/mind dichotomies, this book reconsiders prehistoric Inuit cultures, providing an analysis of therianthropic motifs on prehistoric ivories to explore potential shamanism within ontological and cosmological structures.
