Monograph series

Monograph series
Author: Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 588
Release: 1953
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN:

Northwest Anthropological Research Notes

Northwest Anthropological Research Notes
Author: Roderick Sprague
Publisher: Northwest Anthropology
Total Pages: 398
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Reprint of Report of the Committee for Investigating and Publishing Reports of the Physical Character, Languages, and Industrial and Social Conditions of the North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada, from the Report of the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1886-1899 First Report of the Committee Report on the Blackfoot Tribe, Horatio Hale Second Report of the Committee Third Report of the Committee Suggestions for Investigation Report on the Blackfoot Tribe, Edward F. Wilson Notes on the Report of the Rev. E. F. Wilson, Horatio Hale Fourth Report of the Committee Preliminary Notes on the Indians of British Columbia, Franz Boas Report on the Sarcee Indians, Edward F. Wilson Notes on the Foregoing Report, Horatio Hale Fifth Report of the Committee Remarks on North American Ethnology, Horatio Hale First General Report on the Indians of British Columbia, Franz Boas Sixth Report of the Committee Remarks on the Ethnology of British Columbia, Horatio Hale Second Report on the Indians of British Columbia, Franz Boas Lku'ñgEn (Songish); Nootka; Kwakiutl; and Shuswap Deformed Crania from the North Pacific Coast Linguistics Seventh Report of the Committee Introduction, Daniel Wilson Third Report on the Indians of British Columbia, Franz Boas Eighth Report of the Committee Remarks on Linguistics Ethnology, Horatio Hale Report on the Kootenay Indians of SE B.C., A. F. Chamberlain Nine [Ninth] Report of the Committee Fourth Report on the Indians of British Columbia The Indians of the Lower Fraser River, Franz Boas Tenth Report of the Committee Fifth Report on the Indians of British Columbia, Franz Boas Physical Characteristics of the Tribes of the North Pacific Coast Tinneh of Nicola Valley; Tinneh of the Portland Inlet; The Nass River Indians Linguistics Eleventh Report Sixth Report on the Indians of British Columbia, Franz Boas Notes on the Kwakiutl The Houses of the Tsimshian and Nisk a' The Growth of Indian Children from the Interior of British Columbia Linguistic Notes Twelfth and Final Report of the Committee Physical Characteristics of the Tribes of B. C., Franz Boas The Chilcotin, Livingston Farrand The Social Organization of the Haida, Franz Boas Linguistics, Franz Boas Summary of the Work of the Committee in B. C., Franz Boas Papers based largely on Investigations carried for the Committee Appendix: Index to Reports IV – XII

The Potlatch Papers

The Potlatch Papers
Author: Christopher Bracken
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1997-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226069877

Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of property, a system of banking, and a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is considered one of the founding concepts of anthropology. However, the author here dismisses such a theory, arguing the concept was invented by 19th-century Canadian law for the purpose of control. 9 halftones.

The Mothers

The Mothers
Author: Robert Stephen Briffault
Publisher:
Total Pages: 866
Release: 1927
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN: