The Development of political organization in native North America

Tooker, Elisabeth. (Added Author). Fried, Morton H. (Morton Herbert), 1923-1986 (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0942976010 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780942976014 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : American Ethnological Society, c1983.

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Tribe and state in the sixteenth and twentieth centuries / William C. Sturtevant -- Ethnohistorical investigation of egalitarian politics in eastern North America / Eleanor Leacock -- Pueblo councils: an example of stratified egalitarianism / M. Estellie Smith -- Aboriginal sociopolitical organization in Owens Valley: beyond the family band / Robert L. Bettinger -- On Steward's models of Shoshonean sociopolitical organization: a great bias in the basin? / David Hurst Thomas -- Aboriginal Tlingit sociopolitical organization / Frederica de Laguna -- Ecology and political organization on the Northwest Coast of America / Philip Drucker -- Seasonal settlements, village aggregations, and political autonomy on the central Northwest Coast / Donald H. Mitchell -- Was Nuu-chah-nulth-aht (Nootka) society based on slave labor? / Leland Donald -- Pre-contact political organization and slavery in Aleut societies / Joan B. Townsend -- Warfare and redistributive exchange on the Northwest Coast / Brian Ferguson -- Limiting access to limited goods: the origins of stratification in interior British Columbia / Charles A. Bishop -- The recognition of leadership in egalitarian societies of the Northeast / Nan A. Rothschild -- Moundville: late prehistoric sociopolitical organization in the southeastern United States / Christopher S. Peebles -- The analysis of prehistoric political organization / Fred Plog and Steadman Upham -- Some simple measures for the study of prehistoric political organization / Frank J. Findlow and Neil J. Goldberg.