Northern Plainsmen : Adaptive Strategy and Agrarian Life

ISBN-13: 9780202309644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 382 str.

John W. Bennett

Opis

A study of a rural region and plural society, this book is a distinctive contribution to anthropology, in that it brings the conceptual framework of that discipline to bear on a contemporary agrarian society and its historical development, rather than on peasant or tribal peoples; cultural ecology, in that it shows the nature of the adaptations of four distinctive social groups to the environment of the Canadian Great Plains; the study of social and economic change, as it describes cultural patterns and mechanisms that are relevant to agrarian development the world over; and North American studies, in as much as it deals with community life in the classic sequence of settlement of the Western Plains.

Spis treści

Introduction; One: Adaptation as a Frame of Reference; Two: The Jasper Region of Western Canada; Three: Jasper Culture; Four: Jasper Economy; Five: The Indians; Six: The Ranchers; Seven: The Farmers; Eight: The Hutterites; Nine: Cooperation and Competition in Agricultural Production; Ten: Adaptation and Change

O autorze

John W. Bennett