"Extending some 1,400 miles from Alaska to northern California, America's Northwest Coast is one of the richest and most distinct cultural areas on earth. The region is famous for its magnificent art--masks, totem poles, woven blankets--produced by the world's most politically and economically complex hunters and gatherers. As this pioneering account shows, the history of settlement on the Northwest Coast stretches back some 11,000 years ..."
"America's Northwest Coast is one of the richest and most distinct cultural areas on earth, extending some 1400 miles from Alaska to northern California. The region is famous for the magnificent art--masks, totem poles, woven blankets--produced by the ancient world's most politically and economically complex hunters and gatherers. For well over a century the area has been the focus of intensive ethnographic and art historical research, y ..."
"Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a central methodology for archaeologists interested in the social, political and economic organisation of chiefdoms and states, and a key theoretical and methological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity. This book has come out of more than a decade of research by the authors, who firmly believe that household archaeology is a very ..."
"Chinookan peoples have lived on the Lower Columbia River for millennia. Today they are one of the most significant Native groups in the Pacific Northwest, although the Chinook Tribe is still unrecognized by the United States government. In Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia River, scholars provide a deep and wide-ranging picture of the landscape and resources of the Chinookan homeland and the history and culture of a people over t ..."
"This encyclopaedia offers a tapestry of data, descriptions, speculation, facts and theories, and provides a comprehensive introduction to the early inhabitants and cultures of continental North America. It explores each cultural area, its major social complexes, important archaelogical sites, food resources, and pioneering archaelogists. It also covers topics such as tool types, archaeoastronomy, charmstones, shell money, fire use, nutt ..."
Victorian Furniture Essays from a Victorian Society por KennethAmes Paperback, Publicado 1982 por Amer Life Foundation ISBN-13: 978-0-89257-062-1, ISBN: 0-89257-062-8
"Drucker (1965:119) has suggested that houses at Port Simpson in the mid-
nineteenth century averaged about 15.5 by 17 m, but this seems too large, since
according to Church Missionary Society records cited by Halpin and Seguin (
1990:271), the largest house at ... The roofstructure, which was supported by
interior posts and was entirely independent of the walls, was an elaborate crib-
work of heavy ..."
"In this provocative look at Victorian America, Kenneth Ames explores the minds of Victorians by examining some of their most distinctive and fascinating creations. Featuring five once-prominent home furnishings, he reconstructs a vanished culture and demonstrates the centrality of the artifact to historical understanding. Richly illustrated with photographs of surviving objects as well as images from a wide variety of period sources, th ..."
"Kenneth M. Stampp is Morrison Professor of American History Emeritus at the
University of California, Berkeley, and is widely regarded ... His writings include
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South and America in 1857: A
Nation on the Brink. ... and has been the winner of two Guggenheim Fellowships,
two Fulbright Awards, and the American Historical Association Award for
Scholarly Distinction. ... □^^m^m A Touch ..."