North American Indian anthropology : essays on society and culture

DeMallie, Raymond J., 1946- (Added Author). Ortiz, Alfonso, 1939- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0806126140 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780806126142 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xi, 430 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Biology and social relationships in the kin terminology of an Inuit community / Joseph Maxwell -- Historical changes in the Chipewyan kinship system / James G.E. Smith -- Kinship, social class, and religion of Northwest peoples / June M. Collins -- Central Algonkian moieties / Charles Callender -- Kinship and biology in Sioux culture / Raymond J. DeMallie -- Northern Cheyenne kinship reconsidered / Anne S. Straus -- The social organizations of the Southeast / Greg Urban -- Fur trade as centrifuge: familial dispersal and offspring identity in two company contexts / Jennifer S.H. Brown -- The civilization strategy: Gros Ventres, Northern and Southern Arapahos compared / Loretta Fowler -- The roots of factionalism among the Lower Brule Sioux / Ernest L. Schusky -- "Reading back" to find community: Lumbee ethnohistory / Karen I. Blu -- The dynamics of Pueblo cultural survival / Alfonso Ortiz -- Hopi shamanism: a reappraisal / Jerrold E. Levy -- Patterns of leadership in Western Pueblo society / Triloki Nath Pandey -- Indian law and Puebloan tribal law / Bruce B. MacLachlan -- Cultural motifs in Navajo weaving / Gary Witherspoon -- On the application of the phylogenetic model to the Maya / Evon Z. Vogt.