Indigenous Peoples of North America : A Concise Anthropological Overview
Robert J. Muckle
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press Higher Education, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (208 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""A Note on Classification, Terminology, and Spelling""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""ONE: SITUATING THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA""; ""Introduction""; ""North America Defined""; ""Indigenous, Indian, Native American, First Nation, Aboriginal, and Other Labels""; ""Overview of the Indigenous Peoples of North America Today""; ""Indigenous Peoples of North America in a Global Perspective""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""TWO: STUDYING THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA THROUGH THE LENS OF ANTHROPOLOGY""; ""Introduction"". - ""Excerpts from the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)"". - ""FOUR: STUDYING POPULATION, LANGUAGES, AND CULTURES IN NORTH AMERICA AS THEY WERE AT AD 1500""""Introduction""; ""Population at AD 1500""; ""Indigenous Languages at AD 1500""; ""Studying Traditional Lifeways""; ""Major Areas of Interest in the Study of Traditional Lifeways at AD 1500""; ""Studying Population, Languages, and Traditional Lifeways in a Global Perspective""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""FIVE: OVERVIEW OF TRADITIONAL LIFEWAYS""; ""Introduction""; ""Subsistence Strategies and Diet""; ""Social Systems""; ""Political Systems""; ""Ideology""; ""The Arts""; ""Health and Healing"". - ""Overview of the Economic and Social Conditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America""""Nation-Building""; ""Contemporary Anthropology with Indigenous Communities""; ""Battling Misunderstandings""; ""Contemporary Conditions, Nation-Building, and Anthropology in a Global Perspective""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""EPILOGUE: FINAL COMMENTS""; ""APPENDICES""; ""The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples""; ""Excerpts from the Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association (2009)"". - ""Technology and Material Culture""""Traditional Lifeways in a Global Perspective""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""SIX: UNDERSTANDING THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE""; ""Introduction""; ""Continental Diplomacy in North America""; ""Principal Policies, Practices, and Agents of Change""; ""Processes of Change""; ""Indigenous Reactions to Change""; ""Understanding the Colonial Experience in a Global Perspective""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""SEVEN: CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS, NATION-BUILDING, AND ANTHROPOLOGY""; ""Introduction"". - ""The Anthropological Perspective""""Brief History of the Anthropological Study of Indigenous Peoples in North America""; ""Indigenous Anthropologists and Critique""; ""The Anthropological Study of the Indigenous Peoples of North America in a Global Perspective""; ""Suggested Readings""; ""THREE: COMPREHENDING NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY""; ""Introduction""; ""Concepts of Time""; ""The Nature of North American Archaeology""; ""Outline of North American Prehistory""; ""Historical Archaeology""; ""North American Archaeology and Prehistory in a Global Perspective""; ""Suggested Readings""
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| ISBN | 9781442603561
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