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• Physical Description: xx, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: [1st ed.].
• Publisher: New York : Dutton, 1968.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Second ed. published in 1978 under title: Man's rise to civilization.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-320).

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Elman R. Service -- The Evolution of complexity : A Laboratory for modern man -- The First Americans -- How cultures change -- Differences and simularities in the cultures of mankind -- Man as a social animal -- The Band : Great Basin Shoshone : Cultural Improverishment -- Of Apes and men -- The Irreducible minimum of human socity -- Incest -- The Most leisured people -- Cooperation -- Ajusting to a White world.

Eskimo : Environment and adaptation : The Far-flung people -- Sociality and survival -- Wife-lending and other exchanges -- Feuds and duels -- A Communistic society? -- The Birth of the gods -- The Shaman, dealer in the supernatural -- Taboo : handicaps to survival? -- The Sub- Artic : Living with Expediency : The Composit Band -- Capitalism : Innate or acquired? -- The Hunting territory -- The Social function of anxiety -- An explanation of reincarnation -- Totem and taboo -- -- Southeran California : the Potentialities of the Band : The Patrilocal band -- Lieages, moieties, and sacred bundles -- Puberty rites -- Cultural hybrids.

The Tribe : Zuni : Unity through Religion : The Pueblo Indians : The Clans -- The Woman's role -- Zuni relligion -- Ritual and memorial day -- The "Peaceful" Pueblo? -- Rites of rebellion -- Iroquois : Primitive democracy : "The Greeks of America : -- The Democracy of the League and arxism -- Great men and great events -- Warfare in the woodlands -- The Great Spirit and monotheism -- False faces -- Plains : Equestrian Revolutionaries : The Great American epic -- A Living experiment in cultural change -- The Make-believe Indians -- Coups and scalping -- Causes of warfare -- The New rich -- Visions quests -- The End of a culture.

The Chiefdom : Northwest Coast : Status and -- The Affuent societies of the Pacific Coast -- A Complex social organization -- Rank and status -- Sumptuary laws -- Primitive slavery -- Specialists in religion and art -- Totem poles -- The Economics of prestige -- The Rise and fall of chiefdoms -- Natchez : People of the Sun -- The French romantics -- The Great sun -- Ruler as supreme priest -- Caste versus class -- The Last of the mound builders -- The State : Aztec : study in total power : The Rise to respectability -- The Valley of Mexico -- The Conquest by Corties -- The Aztec state -- Class and clan -- Warriors and priests -- The Death of the sun.

Continued : The Long Migration : The Peopling of North America -- The Continent that had never known man -- Over the land bridge -- Paths across the continent -- The Earliest big-game hunters -- The Great extinction -- Preadapted cultures emerge -- The Desert culture and the eastern archaic -- Beginnings of agriculture -- Transpacific contacts? -- The Flowering of diversity -- The Eastern woodlands -- The Mound builders -- The Generations of Adam : The Missing skeletons -- The Evidence of the skulls -- The American race -- Half a thousand tongues -- Dating by language -- Man at the mercy of his language.

Socieies Under Stress : The End of the Trail : First encounters -- The Noble Red Man and the bloodshirsty savage -- The Great removl -- The Cherokee -- The Last stand -- Borrowed Cultures : the Debt to the Indian -- Squaw men -- Acculturation without assimilation -- The Navaho -- Navaho and Zuni war veterans -- The Hopes of the Oppressed : Revivalistic movements -- The First phase : recovery of lost cultures -- Dreamers -- The Ghost Dance -- The Second phase : accomodation -- Peyotism -- Messiah : Indian and others -- A Society for the preservation of cultures.

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