Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers - Hardcover

Lightfoot, Kent

 
9780520208247: Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0520208242 ISBN 13: 9780520208247
Verlag: University of California Press, 2004

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California's earliest European colonists - Russian merchants and Franciscan missionaries - both depended heavily on Native American labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of history - including little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and archaeological excavations - to present a vivid new look at how native cultures fared under these two colonial systems. In addition to providing a new window on California's colonial past, Kent Lightfoot's innovative work, incorporating the holistic methods of historical anthropology, explores the surprising ramifications of these long-ago encounters for the political status of native people in the state today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kent G. Lightfoot is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Prehistoric Political Dynamics: A Case Study from the American Southwest (1984), among other books.

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"This is a remarkable contribution by an extraordinary anthropologist."—David Hurst Thomas, author of Skull Wars

"A groundbreaking work that will be welcomed by both scholars and the general reader who wishes to understand the role of California's past in shaping its future."—Robert L. Hoover, Professor Emeritus, California Polytechnic State University

"This is essential reading for every California historian and archaeologist and a superb choice for undergraduate classrooms. Lightfoot's authoritative account gives a long-silenced voice to the many Indians of California."—Jeanne E. Arnold, editor of The Origins of a Pacific Coast Chiefdom

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"This is a remarkable contribution by an extraordinary anthropologist."David Hurst Thomas, author ofSkull Wars

"A groundbreaking work that will be welcomed by both scholars and the general reader who wishes to understand the role of California's past in shaping its future."Robert L. Hoover, Professor Emeritus, California Polytechnic State University

"This is essential reading for every California historian and archaeologist and a superb choice for undergraduate classrooms. Lightfoot's authoritative account gives a long-silenced voice to the many Indians of California."Jeanne E. Arnold, editor ofThe Origins of a Pacific Coast Chiefdom

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520208242
ISBN 13 
9780520208247
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
355
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