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Indians of North America

Summary: The art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. Indians of North America displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at the high points of their histories—a variation which was greater than that among the nations of Europe.

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  • ISBN: 0226164675 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 97802261646710 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0226164667
  • ISBN: 9780226164663
  • Physical Description: xvii, 632 p. : ill., maps (1 fold. in pocket) ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 2d ed., rev.
  • Publisher: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Bibliography: p. 567-593.
Formatted Contents Note: Origin and prehistory -- Culture areas -- Language -- Subsistence patterns -- Horticulture -- Other aspects of subsistence -- Narcotics and stimulants -- Housing and architecture -- Clothing -- Crafts -- Art -- Music and dance -- Exchange and trade -- Marriage and the family -- Larger kin groups and kinship terminology -- Property and inheritance -- Government and social controls -- Violence, feuds, raids and war -- Rank and social classes -- Sodalities and their ceremonies -- Life cycle -- Education -- Religion, magic, and medicine -- Personality and culture -- History and culture in Mexico -- Indian-White relations in the United States -- Indian culture change in the United States -- History and culture change in Canada, Alaska, and Greenland -- Achievements and contributions -- Plates -- Maps.
Subject: Indigenous peoples -- Central America
Indigenous peoples -- Mexico
Indigenous peoples -- West Indies
Indigenous peoples -- North America

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Merritt Campus E58 D68 1969 (Text) 124437 Regular Collection Volume hold Available -
Vancouver Campus E58 .D68 1969 (Text) 223292 Regular Collection Volume hold Available -

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