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Book Seven Early Accounts of the Pomo Indians and Their Culture

Download or read book Seven Early Accounts of the Pomo Indians and Their Culture written by Robert Fleming Heizer and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ceremonies of the Pomo Indians

Download or read book Ceremonies of the Pomo Indians written by S. A. Barrett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceremonies of the Pomo Indians is a book by S. A. Barrett. It delves into the archeology, ethnology and traditions of the Pomo Indians who were based in Northern California.

Book Pomo Indians

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  • Author : Cora Clark
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-06-01
  • ISBN : 9781258034948
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Pomo Indians written by Cora Clark and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pomo

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  • Author : Nia Kennedy
  • Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
  • Release : 2017-12-15
  • ISBN : 153832489X
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book The Pomo written by Nia Kennedy and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pomo Indians have a long and troubled past. They adapted to the coastal climate of Northern California, but faced many challenges once Europeans began arriving. Their population shrank and they lost control of much of their land. Today, the Pomo continue to fight for civil rights and fair treatment. This book takes an in-depth look at the history of the Pomo culture over the past several thousand years. Readers will enjoy learning about the traditions, beliefs, and arts of the Pomo people. Primary sources enhance this engaging, curricular topic.

Book California Indians and Their Environment

Download or read book California Indians and Their Environment written by Kent Lightfoot and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the vitality of California's unique indigenous cultures, this major new introduction incorporates the extensive research of the past thirty years into an illuminating, comprehensive synthesis for a wide audience. Based in part on new archaeological findings, it tells how the California Indians lived in vibrant polities, each boasting a rich village life including chiefs, religious specialists, master craftspeople, dances, feasts, and ceremonies. Throughout, the book emphasizes how these diverse communities interacted with the state's varied landscape, enhancing its already bountiful natural resources through various practices centered around prescribed burning. A handy reference section, illustrated with more than one hundred color photographs, describes the plants, animals, and minerals the California Indians used for food, basketry and cordage, medicine, and more. At a time when we are grappling with the problems of maintaining habitat diversity and sustainable economies, we find that these native peoples and their traditions have much to teach us about the future, as well as the past, of California.

Book The Chumash World at European Contact

Download or read book The Chumash World at European Contact written by Lynn H. Gamble and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Chumash World at European Contact is a major achievement that will be required reading and a fundamental reference in a variety of disciplines for years to come."—Thomas C. Blackburn, editor of December's Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives "An extremely valuable synthesis of the historical, ethnographic, and archaeological record of one of the most remarkable populations of Native Californians."—Glenn J. Farris, Senior Archaeologist, California State Parks Department

Book Pomo

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  • Author : Edward Winslow Gifford
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-07-01
  • ISBN : 9781258444303
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Pomo written by Edward Winslow Gifford and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Four Volumes. Volume 1, The Structure Of California Indian Culture; Volume 2, Yana; Volume 3, Area And Climax; Volume 4, Pomo. A Detailed And Technical Archaeological And Ethnological Study Of The Pomo, A Native American Group Living In Northern California, And Providing Detailed Lists Of Items And Cultural Practices Used By The Various Tribes In The Pomo Community, Denoting Which Tribe Used What Object Or Practice, As Well As Providing Short Descriptions Of The Objects Or Practices.

Book Rise And Demise

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  • Author : Christopher Chase-Dunn
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-02-06
  • ISBN : 0429972784
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Rise And Demise written by Christopher Chase-Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors combine an excellent state-of-the-art review of the literature in world-systems analysis with a vigorous presentation of their own quite coherent views. This book is a major contribution to our collective dialogue on the past and the future." —Immanuel Wallerstein Binghamton University, author of The Modern World-System "An up-to-date and synthetic overview of current world-systems research. The authors draw on diverse literatures from political science to archaeology, from contemporary policy issues to Native American studies, and from history to sociology. This thoughtful volume serves as both a provocative summary of ongoing scholarship and a fertile foundation for future cross-disciplinary dialogue." —Gary M. Feinman University of Wisconsin—Madison "To understand the evolution of the world's political economy, we need empirical theories that can handle 'ancient' and 'modern' processes, a longer time frame encompassing multiple millennia, and less concern about trespassing in other people's disciplines. Chase-Dunn and Hall's new book, Rise and Demise, delivers all three with noteworthy style and effect." —William Thompson Indiana University "Rise and Demise is a wide ranging and stimulating synthesis of the world-systems approach and its main findings. Its broad coverage of parallel social processes in various regions and time periods convincingly makes the argument that world-systems theory is able to integrate many diverse historical and social science specializations." —Richard E. Blanton Purdue University

Book Tribes of California

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  • Author : Stephen Powers
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-09-01
  • ISBN : 0520342356
  • Pages : 507 pages

Download or read book Tribes of California written by Stephen Powers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic of American Indian ethnography, originally published in 1877, is again available in its complete form. In the summers of 1871 and 1872 Powers visited Indian groups in the northern two-thirds of California. A journalist by profession, he was untrained in ethnography, but was nonetheless an astonishingly intelligent observer who had a gift for writing in a spirited manner. He reported faithfully what he heard and portrayed accurately what he saw among the native survivors of Gold Rush days in a series of seventeen articles published mostly in The Overland Monthly. These were partly unwritten, added to, and reorganized by Powers to be published in 1877 as a report of the U.S. Geographical Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. Powers’ book is still basic and is referred to by everyone who deals with native cultures. The 1877 edition was not large, and Tribes of California is at last reprinted in response to growing demand for this rare volume. For this edition all of the original illustrations have been retained and the basic text printed in facsimile. Professor Robert F. Heizer has provided annotations throughout and an introduction to indicate contemporary thought about the volume.

Book The Wintu   Their Neighbors

Download or read book The Wintu Their Neighbors written by Christopher K. Chase-Dunn and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the cutting edge of world-systems theory comes The Wintu and Their Neighbors, the first case study to compare and contrast systematically an indigenous Native American society with the modern world at large. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, and history, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly M. Mann have scoured the archaeological record of the Wintu, an aboriginal people without agriculture, metallurgy, or class structure who lived in the wooded valleys and hills of northern California. By studying the household composition, kinship, and trade relations of the Wintu, they call into question some of the basic assumptions of prior sociological theory and analysis. Chase-Dunn and Mann argue that Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems perspective, originally applied only to the study of modern capitalistic societies, can also be applied to the study of the social, economic, and political relationships in small stateless societies. They contend that, despite the fact that the Wintu appear on the surface to have been a household-based society, this indigenous group was in fact involved in a myriad of networks of interaction, which resulted in intermarriage and which extended for many miles around the region. These networks, which were not based on the economic dominance of one society over anotherÑa concept fundamental to Wallerstein's world-systems theoryÑled to the eventual expansion of the Wintu as a cultural group. Thus, despite the fact that the Wintu did not behave like a modern societyÑlacking wealth accumulation, class distinctions, and cultural dominanceÑChase-Dunn and Mann insist that the Wintu were involved in a world-system and argue, therefore, that the concept of the "minisystem" should be discarded. They urge other scholars to employ this comparative world-systems perspective in their research on stateless societies.

Book Treasures from Native California

Download or read book Treasures from Native California written by Travis Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brief Russian presence in California yielded some of the earliest ethnography of Native Californians and some of the best collections of their material culture. Unstudied by western scholars because of their being housed in Russian museums, they are presented here for the first time in an English language volume. Descriptions of early nineteenth-century travelers such as von Wrangel and Voznesenskii are followed by a catalog of objects ranging from hunting weapons to household objects to ritual dress to musical instruments, games, and gift objects. This catalog of objects includes over 150 images, many in full color. An essential volume for those interested in the ethnology, archaeology, art, and cultures of Native Californians.

Book Contemporary Archaeology in Theory

Download or read book Contemporary Archaeology in Theory written by Robert W. Preucel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between time, space, processes, and people. Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences more generally to the modern world Challenges the traditional boundaries between prehistoric and historical archaeologies Discusses how archaeology articulates such contemporary topics and issues as landscape and natures; agency, meaning and practice; sexuality, embodiment and personhood; race, class, and ethnicity; materiality, memory, and historical silence; colonialism, nationalism, and empire; heritage, patrimony, and social justice; media, museums, and publics Examines the influence of American pragmatism on archaeology Offers 32 new chapters by leading archaeologists and cultural anthropologists

Book Pomo

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  • Author : Barbara A. Gray-Kanatiiosh
  • Publisher : ABDO
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 161613884X
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Pomo written by Barbara A. Gray-Kanatiiosh and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the history, past and present social life and customs of the Pomo Indians, a tribe in northern California.

Book Native American Architecture

Download or read book Native American Architecture written by Peter Nabokov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life. The collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, Native American Architecture presents the first book-length, fully illustrated exploration of North American Indian architecture to appear in over a century. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton together examine the building traditions of the major tribes in nine regional areas of the continent from the huge plank-house villages of the Northwest Coast to the moundbuilder towns and temples of the Southeast, to the Navajo hogans and adobe pueblos of the Southwest. Going beyond a traditional survey of buildings, the book offers a broad, clear view into the Native American world, revealing a new perspective on the interaction between their buildings and culture. Looking at Native American architecture as more than buildings, villages, and camps, Nabokov and Easton also focus on their use of space, their environment, their social mores, and their religious beliefs. Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian building practices undergoing a revival or in danger today. The volume also includes a wealth of historical photographs and drawings (including sixteen pages of color illustrations), architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal house types.

Book Material Aspects of Pomo Culture

Download or read book Material Aspects of Pomo Culture written by Samuel Alfred Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultural Diversity and Culture Change in Prehistoric Clear Lake Basin

Download or read book Cultural Diversity and Culture Change in Prehistoric Clear Lake Basin written by Gregory G. White and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on the data recovery from archaeological sites in the Anderson Flat area of lower Clearlake, California represents one of the most complete site reports on California archaeology ever produced. This monograph has rewritten the culture history of the north coast range.