Hunters and Fishermen of the Arctic Forests

ISBN-13: 9780202362779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str.

James Vanstone

Opis

The great expanse of Arctic and Sub-Arctic lands that stretch across the northern edge of the American continent is as diffi cult and demanding to human beings as any in the world. Th e Athapaskan-speaking Indians who made it their home never captured the imagination of popular writers as did the Eskimo who lived on their northern borders and the Plains Indians who lived to the south. Except to anthropologists, the Athapaskans have remained in relative obscurity, known intimately only to the missionaries, the traders and trappers, and the prospectors who invaded their forbidding territory.

Spis treści

1: The Natural Environment and Human Populations; 2: The Subsistence Base and Settlement Patterns; 3: Social Institutions; 4: Religion and The Supernatural; 5: The Individual and His Culture; 6: The History Of The European Contact; 7: Northern Athapaskans and The Modern World; 8: Athapaskan Adaptive Strategy; Appendix: The Ethnographic Literature and Future Research Needs

O autorze

James W. VanStone