HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS NORTHEAST VOLUME 15 SMITHSONIAN TRIGGER 1978

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HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS NORTHEAST VOLUME 15SMITHSONIAN TRIGGER BY BRUCE G. TRIGGER. VOLUME EDITOR... WILLIAM C. STURTEVANT,GENERAL EDITOR. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. First Edition. Scarce. A solid and attractive scarce book. Published more than 35 years ago, this edition is now long out of print and hard to find. Large, Thick & Very Heavy - sized hardcover book; xvi + 924 pages of text with numerous illustrations, including maps. Very Good condition: no torn or missing pages; no writing or markings in the text; owner name inside cover. Original hardcover binding, with some wear & scuffing. Shipping Terms: High bidder pays winning bid plus USPS Media Mail. Insurance extra email for quote after auction ends. Refunds, Returns: If you are not satisfied upon receipt, you may return it to me for a full refund of the bid and shipping. (Buyer to pay for returning shipping to me.) Will combine shipping with other items. From the Preface: "This is the second to be published of a 20-volume set planned to give an encyclopedic summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal peoples of North America who lived north of the urban civilizations of central Mexico. Volumes 5-14 treat the other major culture areas of this region. Some topics relevant to the Northeast area are excluded from this volume because they are more appropriately discussed on a continent-wide basis. Readers should refer to volume 1, Introduction, for general descriptions of anthropological and historical methods and sources and for summaries for the whole continent of certain topics regarding social and political organization, religion, and the performing arts. Volume 2 contains detailed accounts of the different kinds of Indian and Eskimo communities in the twentieth century, especially during its third quarter, and describes their relations with one another and with the surroundings non-Indian societies and nations. Volume 3 gives the environmental and biological backgrounds within which Native societies developed, summarizes the early and late human biology or physical anthropology of Indians and Eskimos, and surveys the earliest prehistoric cultures. (Therefore the Paleo-Indian or Early Man period in the Northeast receives major treatment in volume 3 rather than in this volume.) Volume 4 contains details on the history of Indian-White relations..." According to Wikipedia: "Bruce Graham Trigger, OC OQ FRSC (June 18, 1937–December 1, 2006) was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian. Born in Preston, Ontario, he received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964. His research interests at that time included the history of archaeological research and the comparative study of early cultures. He spent the following year teaching at Northwestern University and then took a position with the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, and remained there for the rest of his career. He was arguably best known for The Children of Aataentsic, his two-volume study of the Huron peoples, a work which remains the definitive study on the history and ethnography of that people. The Children of Aataentsic earned Trigger numerous accolades, including adoption by the Huron-Wendat Nation as an honorary member. Trigger would later reiterate some of the key arguments of the book in Natives and Newcomers, a polemical work aimed at educating laypeople. In Natives and Newcomers Trigger, writing in the tradition of Franz Boas, argued that the colonial and Aboriginal societies of early Canada all possessed rich and complex social and cultural systems, and that there are no grounds to argue that any society of early Canada was superior to the others. Trigger's book A History of Archaeological Thought investigates the development of theory and archaeology as a discipline. A second and expanded edition was published in 2006..." read more

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