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Title

Food in California Indian culture / edited with an introduction by Ira Jacknis.

Publication

Berkeley : Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jacknis, Ira
• Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Description

x, 490 p. : ill., 1 map; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Classics in California anthropology

Uniform Title

Classics in California anthropology

Subject

• Indians of North America > Food > California
• Indians of North America > Hunting > California
• Indian cooking > California > History
• Food habits > California > History
• Food preferences > California > History

Genre/Form

• History
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• "Reprints the food-related sections from many hard-to-find sources"--[P.] 4 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Notes toward a culinary anthropology of native California / by Ira Jacknis -- The food problem in California / by Alfred L. Kroeber -- Making acorn bread in Yosemite / by Elizabeth Grinnell -- The acorn, a possibly neglected source of food / by C. Hart Merriam -- Photographic portfolio : Sierran acorns, ca. 1902-8 / by C. Hart Merriam -- California Indian balanophagy / by Edward W. Gifford -- Photographic portfolio : Ishi (Yahi) hunting deer and rabbit, 1914 / by Alfred L. Kroeber and Saxton T. Pope --
• Fish and the Miwok / by Craig D. Bates -- Shellfish foods of the California Indians / by Robert E. Greengo -- The army worm : a food of the Pomo Indians / by Samuel A. Barrett -- Life and culture of the Hupa / by Pliny E. Goddard -- The Northern Maidu / by Roland B. Dixon -- Wintu ethnography / by Cora A. Du Bois -- Notes on traditional foothill Nisenan food technology / by Norman L. Wilson --
• Photographic portfolio : Elizabeth Enos (Nisenan Maidu) processing buckeyes, 1960 / by Samuel A. Barrett and film crew -- Ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of southern California / by David P. Barrows -- Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute/ by Julian H. Steward -- Culinary practices of the Mohave Indians / by Kenneth M. Steward -- Karuk food myths / edited by Alfred L. Kroeber and Edward W. Grifford -- A Pomo food tale / edited by Samuel A. Barrett -- A Chumash food tale / edited by Thomas C. Blackburn --
• A Sierra Miwok feast oration / edited by Edward W. Gifford -- Photographic portfolio : a Konkow Maidu feast, 1903 / by John W. Hudson -- Subsistence rituals in native California / by Sean L. Swezey -- Kashaya Pomo memories of food / by Essie Parrish -- Photographic portfolio : Kashaya Pomo foods, ca. 1960 / by Samuel A. Barrett and film crew -- Venison, acorns, and fry bread / by David W. Peri -- You'll never go hungry and Crab louis and the jitterbug / by Kathleen R. Smith --
• Contemporary food customs / by Beverly R. Ortiz -- Photographic porfolio : contemporary food customs / by Dugan Aguilar.

ISBN

• 0936127082
• 9780936127088

LCCN

^^2004061720

OCLC

• 56924635
• SCSB-11177374

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library