Comanche society before the reservation

Betty, Gerald 1965- (Author).

Summary: "Once called the Lords of the Plains, the Comanches were long portrayed as loose bands of marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction of horses to raise their people out of primitive poverty through bison hunting and fierce warfare. More recent studies of the Comanches have focused on adaptation and persistence in Comanche lifestyles and on Comanche political organization and language-based alliances. In Comanche Society: Before the Reservation, Gerald Betty develops an exciting and sophisticated perspective on the driving force of Comanche life: kinship. Betty details the kinship patterns that underlay all social organization and social behavior among the Comanches and uses the insights gained to explain the way Comanches lived and the way they interacted with the Europeans who recorded their encounters."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 158544958X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781585449583 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1585441902
ISBN: 9781585441907
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (239 p.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Comanche kinship and society -- Comanche migration and geographic mobility -- Comanche horse pastoralism -- The nature of Comanche economics -- An explanation of Comanche violence.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.