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Comanche society : before the reservation /
"Once called the Lords of the Plains, the Comanches were long portrayed as loose bands of marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction of horses to raise their people out of primitive poverty through bison hunting and fierce warfare. More recent studies of the Comanches have fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2002.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ;
no. 23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Once called the Lords of the Plains, the Comanches were long portrayed as loose bands of marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction of horses to raise their people out of primitive poverty through bison hunting and fierce warfare. More recent studies of the Comanches have focused on adaptation and persistence in Comanche lifestyles and on Comanche political organization and language-based alliances. In Comanche Society: Before the Reservation, Gerald Betty develops an exciting and sophisticated perspective on the driving force of Comanche life: kinship. Betty details the kinship patterns that underlay all social organization and social behavior among the Comanches and uses the insights gained to explain the way Comanches lived and the way they interacted with the Europeans who recorded their encounters."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 158544958X 9781585449583 158544491X 9781585444915 9781603446075 1603446079 |