Julian Steward and the Great Basin : the making of an anthropologist /

"Julian Steward and the Great Basin is a critical assessment of Steward's work, the factors that influenced him, and his deep effect on American anthropology. Steward (1902-1972) was one of the foremost American exponents of cultural ecology, the idea that societies evolve in adaptation to...

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Other Authors: Clemmer, Richard O., Myers, L. Daniel, 1949-, Rudden, Mary Elizabeth, 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Learning the land /
  • Virginia Kerns
  • Julian Steward and Utah archaeology /
  • Joel C. Janetski
  • Numic pronghorn exploitation /
  • Brooke S. Arkush
  • In the field in Death Valley /
  • Catherine S. Fowler ... [et al.]
  • A revisionist view of Julian Steward and the Great Basin paradigm from the North /
  • Deward E. Walker Jr.
  • The Yamparika - Shoshones, Comanches, or Utes - or Does it matter? /
  • James A. Goss
  • Julian Steward, the Western Shoshones, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs /
  • Elmer R. Rusco
  • Julian Steward's vision of the Great Basin /
  • Steven J. Crum
  • A frame for culture /
  • L. Daniel Myers
  • Steward's gap /
  • Richard O. Clemmer
  • Where were Wovoka and Wuzzie George? /
  • Alice B. Kehoe
  • Rethinking cultural ecology, multilinear evolution, and expert witnesses /
  • Sheree Ronaasen, Richard O. Clemmer, and Mary Elizabeth Rudden
  • Julian Steward and the politics of representation /
  • Ned Blackhawk
  • Julian Steward and the construction of area-studies research in the United States /
  • Thomas C. Patterson and Antonio Lauria-Perricelli.