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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520031725
ISBN-139780520031722
eBay Product ID (ePID)156294
Product Key Features
Book TitleTribes of California
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1976
TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Native American Languages, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
IllustratorYes
FeaturesReprint
GenreForeign Language Study, Social Science, History
AuthorStephen Powers
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight27.3 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN75-013150
Dewey Decimal979.4/004/97
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThis classic of American Indian ethnography, originally published in 1877, is again available in its complete form. In the summers of 1871 and 1872 Powers visited Indian groups in the northern two-thirds of California. A journalist by profession, he was untrained in ethnography, but was nonetheless an astonishingly intelligent observer who had a gift for writing in a spirited manner. He reported faithfully what he heard and portrayed accurately what he saw among the native survivors of Gold Rush days in a series of seventeen articles published mostly in The Overland Monthly. These were partly unwritten, added to, and reorganized by Powers to be published in 1877 as a report of the U.S. Geographical Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. Powers' book is still basic and is referred to by everyone who deals with native cultures. The 1877 edition was not large, and Tribes of California is at last reprinted in response to growing demand for this rare volume. For this edition all of the original illustrations have been retained and the basic text printed in facsimile. Professor Robert F. Heizer has provided annotations throughout and an introduction to indicate contemporary thought about the volume.
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- 02. Feb. 2017
Historical prespectine of Natives Americans of California
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