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North American indigenous warfare and ritual violence /

"In ten chapters, fourteen leading scholars dispassionately describe sources and consequences of Amerindian warfare and violence, including ritual violence. Originally presented at an American Anthropological Association symposium, their findings construct a convincing case that warfare and rit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chacon, Richard J., 1959-, Mendoza, Rubén G., 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Traditional native warfare in western Alaska / Ernest S. Burch, Jr.
  • "Barbarism and ardour of war from the tenderest years" : Cree-Inuit warfare in the Hudson Bay Region / Charles A. Bishop and Victor P. Lytwyn
  • Aboriginal warfare on the Northwest coast : did the potlatch replace warfare? / Joan A. Lovisek
  • Ethnohistoric descriptions of Chumash warfare / John R. Johnson
  • Documenting conflict in the prehistoric Pueblo Southwest / Polly Schaafsma
  • Cahokia and the evidence for late pre-Columbian war in the North American midcontinent / Thomas E. Emerson
  • Iroquois-Huron warfare / Dean R. Snow
  • Desecrating the sacred ancestor temples : chiefly conflict and violence in the American Southeast / David H. Dye and Adam King
  • Warfare, population, and food production in prehistoric eastern North America / George R. Milner
  • The osteological evidence for indigenous warfare in North America / Patricia M. Lambert
  • Ethical considerations and conclusions regarding indigenous warfare and violence in North America / Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza.