Contributions

  • Mann, Kelly M. 1971- - Contributor

Publication

1998 - University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona

Language

English

Word Count

50,250 words, Guess

Page Count

201 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number97045386
  • Goodreads1427209
  • LibraryThing899345

Classifications

  • DDC979.4/004974
  • LCCE99.W78 C53 1998

Alternate Titles

  • Wintu and their neighbors

Description

On the cutting edge of world-systems theory comes The Wintu and Their Neighbors: A Very Small World-System in Northern California, the first case study to compare and contrast systematically in 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 assumptions of prior sociological theory and analysis.

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