North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture

by Raymond J. Demallie, Alfonso Ortiz (Editor)

These essays explore the blending of structural and historical approaches to American Indian anthropology that characterizes the perspective developed by the late Fred Eggan and his students at the University of Chicago. They include studies of kinship and social organization, politics, religion, law, ethnicity, and art. Many reflect Eggan's method of controlled comparison, a tool for reconstructing social and cultural change over time. Together these essays make substantial descriptive contributions to American Indian anthropology, presenting contemporary interpretations of diverse groups from the Hudson Bay Inuit in the north to the Highland Maya of Chiapas in the south. The collection will serve as an introduction to Native American social and cultural anthropology for readers interested in the dynamics of Indian social life.

448 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1994

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Triloki N. Pandey's chapter "Patterns of Leadership in Western Pueblo Society." is great I had to read it at City College of San Francisco ... and then I studied with him as an undergrad