Journeys West Jane and Julian Steward and Their Guides / Virginia Kerns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerns, Virginia, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Fieldwork--Great Basin--History.

Anthropology.

Indians of North America--Great Basin--Social life and customs.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Great Basin--Antiquities.

Archaeologists--Great Basin--Biography.

Archaeologists.

Anthropologists--Great Basin--Biography.

Anthropologists.

Steward, Jane Cannon.

Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 414 p. ) ill., 1 map ;

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2011

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Journeys West traces journeys made during seven months of fieldwork in 1935 and 1936 by Julian Steward, a young anthropologist, and his wife, Jane. Virginia Kerns identifies the scores of Native elders whom they met throughout the Western desert, men and women previously known in print only by initials and thus largely invisible as primary sources of Steward's classic ethnography. Besides humanizing Steward's cultural informants - revealing them as distinct - individuals and also as first-generation survivors of an ecological crisis caused by American settlement of their lands - Kerns shows how the elders worked with Steward. Each helped to construct an ethnographic portrait of life in a particular place in the high desert of the Great Basin."--Jacket.

Contents:

California, 1935

Nevada, 1935

Idaho and Utah, 1936.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-395) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803228276

0803228279

OCLC:

859671437