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Julian Steward and the Great Basin : the making of an anthropologist / edited by Richard O. Clemmer, L. Daniel Myers, Mary Elizabeth Rudden.
- Title
- Julian Steward and the Great Basin : the making of an anthropologist / edited by Richard O. Clemmer, L. Daniel Myers, Mary Elizabeth Rudden.
- Publication
- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c1999.
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- Description
- xxii, 288 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 their human and natural environments. He was also central in shaping basic anthropological constructs such as "hunter-gatherer" and "adaptation." But his fieldwork took place almost entirely in the Great Basin of California, Nevada, and Utah." "Julian Steward and the Great Basin also corrects long-standing misperceptions that originated with Steward about lifeways of the Indians living between the Great Plains and California. It charts new directions for research, demanding a more exacting study of environmental conditions, material adaptations, and organizational responses, as well as an appreciation of the ideological and humanistic dimensions of Basin life."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972
- Indians of North America > Great Basin
- Human ecology > Great Basin
- Human geography > Great Basin
- Hunting and gathering societies > Great Basin
- Anthropologists > Great Basin > Biography
- Archaeologists > Great Basin > Biography
- Indians of North America > Great Basin > Antiquities
- Great Basin > Antiquities
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-276) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0874805945 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99013657^
- OCLC
- 40698565
- SCSB-10347014
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library