Anthony F. C. Wallace, one of the most influential American anthropologists of the modern era, brings together some of his most stimulating and celebrated writings. These essays feature his seminal work on revitalization movements, which has profoundly shaped our understanding of the processes of change in religious and political organizations-from the nineteenth-century code of the Seneca prophet known as Handsome Lake to the origins of world religions and political faiths. Wallace also discusses mazeways-mental maps that join personalities with cultures and thereby illustrate how...
Anthony F. C. Wallace, one of the most influential American anthropologists of the modern era, brings together some of his most stimulating and celebr...
In sixteen landmark essays Anthony F. C. Wallace illuminates the interconnections between cognition and culture and the formative social conditions of the modern world. Probing the psychological reality (or realities) of culture, Wallace offers incisive analyses of the cognitive foundations of kinship terms and the ability of cultures, past and present, to process complexity. He also examines whether beavers have a culture and reveals how the mazeway of modern American culture equips and enables a routine drive to work.
In the volume s second section, Wallace interrogates the consequences...
In sixteen landmark essays Anthony F. C. Wallace illuminates the interconnections between cognition and culture and the formative social conditions of...
Anthropologist and preservationist Robert S. Grumet has created this up-to-date, well-written overview of historic contact with Native Americans on the colonial frontier from a vast array of documentary, archaeological, and ethnographic data never assembled before. This is a definitive history of early Indian-white relations in an area extending from Virginia to Maine and from the Atlantic coast to the upper Ohio River. It will be read by specialists and Indian-studies buffs alike.
"Historic Contact" divides native northeastern America into three subregions where the histories of...
Anthropologist and preservationist Robert S. Grumet has created this up-to-date, well-written overview of historic contact with Native Americans on...
A collection of 15 essays examines the lives of important but relatively unknown Native Americans. Each study draws on research in local records, oral traditions, and new models of cultural interaction. The chapters explore the complexities of Indian-colonial relations from the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries from Maine to the Ohio Valley. These works are directed on the attention of Skickellamy, an Oneida diplomat, The Mohawk sachehm Theyanoguin; Aswashunkes, a Saconett sunksquaw; or Molly Ockett, a Pigwacket doctor.Some essays provide fascinating details of Indian-white relations....
A collection of 15 essays examines the lives of important but relatively unknown Native Americans. Each study draws on research in local records, oral...
Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no longer wonder how these names originated. "Manhattan to Minisink "provides the histories of more than five hundred place names in the Greater New York area, including the five boroughs, western Long Island, the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian specializing in the region s Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep knowledge to...
Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no lon...
