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Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state / Peter Farb.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farb, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- United States.
- Indians of North America.
- United States--Indians--History.
- United States--Indians--Social conditions.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- United States--History.
- United States--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Indians--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton, 1968.
- Summary:
- Examines and describes the various customs of North American Indian tribes to explain the evolution of man as a social being - his relationships with his family and kin groups, his religious and his political institutions. Includes Eskimos, Sub-arctic Indians, Plains Indians, Aztec Indians, and Pueblo Indians.
- Contents:
- 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 Continentthat 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.
- Notes:
- Second ed. published in 1978 under title: Man's rise to civilization.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-320).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Farb, Peter. Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state.
- OCLC:
- 410628
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