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The Wintu and Their Neighbors: A Very Small World-System in Northern California (Governing the Frozen Commons)
Christop Chase-Dunn
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 310 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSL9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 236. Weight in Grams: 697.
On the cutting edge of world-systems theory comes The Wintu and Their Neighbors, the first case study to compare and contrast systematically an indigenous Native American society with the modern world at large. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, and history, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly M. Mann have scoured the archaeological record of the Wintu, an aboriginal people without agriculture, metallurgy, or class structure who lived in the wooded valleys and hills of northern California. By studying the household composition, kinship, and trade relations of the Wintu, they call into question some of the basic ... Read more
On the cutting edge of world-systems theory comes The Wintu and Their Neighbors, the first case study to compare and contrast systematically an indigenous Native American society with the modern world at large. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, and history, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly M. Mann have scoured the archaeological record of the Wintu, an aboriginal people without agriculture, metallurgy, or class structure who lived in the wooded valleys and hills of northern California. By studying the household composition, kinship, and trade relations of the Wintu, they call into question some of the basic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816518005
SKU
V9780816518005
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