Indigenous peoples of North America : a concise anthropological overview / Robert J. Muckle.
"Most books dealing with North American Indigenous peoples are exhaustive in coverage. They provide in-depth discussion of various culture areas which, while valuable, sometimes means the big picture context is lost. This book offers a corrective to that trend by providing a concise, thematic overvi...
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Tonawanda, N.Y. :
University of Toronto Press,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 198 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm Also issued in electronic format. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Situating the indigenous peopls of North America
- Studying the indigenous peoples of North America through the lens of anthropology
- Comprehending the American archaeology
- Studying population, languages, and cultures in North America as they were at AD 1500
- Overview of traditional lifeways
- Understanding the colonial experience
- Contrmporary conditions, nation-building, and anthropology
- Epilogue : final comments
- Appendices.