The roots of dependency : subsistence, environment, and social change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos /

Richard White's study of the collapse into 'dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Here ideas and approaches from several fields-mainly anthropology, history, and ecology-are fruitfully combined in one inquiring...

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Roots of dependency
1. Verfasser:
White, Richard
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Zusammenfassung:
Richard White's study of the collapse into 'dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Here ideas and approaches from several fields-mainly anthropology, history, and ecology-are fruitfully combined in one inquiring mind closely focused on a related set of large, salient problems. ... A very sophisticated study, a 'best read' in Indian history.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xix, 433 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schlagworte:
Choctaw Indians > Economic conditions.
Choctaw Indians > Social conditions.
Pawnee Indians > Economic conditions.
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