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A 20-volume encyclopedia summarizing knowledge about all Native peoples north of Mesoamerica, including cultures, languages, history, prehistory, and human biology. Standard reference work for anthropologists, historians, students, and the general reader. Chapters by the main authorities on each topic. Area volumes include separate chapters on all tribes. Heavily illustrated, extensive bibliographies, well indexed. Each volume may be purchased and used independently. -- New -- Handbook of North American Indians, V. 3: Environment, Origins, and Population Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Environment, Origins, and Population-an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach by a team of 96 specialists who bring their expertise from an array of different resources in the fields of Anthropology, Biology, Medicine, and Earth Sciences to present the environmental and biological framework within which American Indian cultures developed and adapted, from the hunting bands of Paleo-Indians who entered the North American continent during the Late Pleistocene to their historic and modern successors. 72 chapters divided into four major sections. 9,000 references, detailed index. Clothbound, 8-1/2 x 11 inches, 1,160 pages. Year/Pages: 2006: 1160 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 4: History of Indian-White Relations Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Wilcomb E. Washburn, Vol. Ed. 838 pp. 57 chapters on the history of Indian-White relations in the U.S. and Canada following 1492. Year/Pages: 1988: 852 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 5, Arctic Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: David Damas, Vol. Ed. 845 pp. 60 chapters on Eskimo, Inuit, Aleut of U.S., Canada, Greenland, Russia. Year/Pages: 1984: 845 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 6, Subarctic Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: June Helm, Vol. Ed. 837 pp. 66 chapters on Indians from interior Alaska to Labrador. Year/Pages: 1981: 853 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 7, Northwest Coast Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Wayne Suttles, Vol. Ed. 796 pp. 58 chapters on Indians of the coasts of southeastern Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Year/Pages: 1990: 793 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 8: California Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Robert F. Heizer, Vol. Ed. 816 pp. 72 chapters on Indians of California. Year/Pages: 1978: 816 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 9, Southwest Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Alfonso Ortiz, Vol. Ed. 717 pp. 59 chapters on Puebloan peoples and prehistory of southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Year/Pages: 1979: 701 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians: V. 10, Southwest Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Alfonso Ortiz, Vol. Ed. 884 pp. 56 chapters on non-Puebloan peoples and on economy, social organization, and rituals of southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Year/Pages: 1983: 884 p.; ill. and 1 errata sheet. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 11, Great Basin Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Warren L. d'Azevedo, Vol. Ed. 868 pp. 45 chapters on Indians of Utah, Nevada, and portions of adjoining states. Year/Pages: 1986: 868 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 12, Plateau Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Deward E. Walker, Jr., Vol. Ed. 808 pp. 41 chapters on Indians of southeastern British Columbia, eastern Washington, northeast and central Oregon, northern Idaho, western Montana, and a small portion of northern California. Year/Pages: 1998: 807 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 13, Plains, Pt. 1-2 (Two Books) Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Raymond J. DeMallie, Vol. Ed. 1,376 pp. 67 chapters on the Indians of the prairie and high plains of U.S. and Canada. The volume consists of 2 parts, separately bound. Year/Pages: 2001: 2 bks. (1392 p.) ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 14, Southeast Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: The Southeast Indians were sophisticated farmers, hunters, gatherers, and fishers occupying a diverse region extending from the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Southern Appalachians, the Carolina Piedmont, the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains, Florida, and west of the mountains to the rich valley of the southern Mississippi River. The complexity and uniqueness of the Southeast culture area is detailed in 64 chapters written by 63 leading authorities, both anthropologists and historians. Separate chapters describe and illustrate the culture of each major tribe and tribal group, their history, transformation, and evolution over time. Regional and subregional overviews frame these and summarize the long prehistory of the area. Special topic chapters examine broad aspects of culture that characterize the Southeast and cross-cut tribal lines. Introductory chapters explore the history of research in the area, languages spoken, and environment, and synthesize information on many small groups inadequately described in the historical literature. 508 illustrations--maps, drawings, paintings, engravings, photographs. Essays on sources, extensive bibliography, detailed index. -- Raymond D. FOGELSON, Volume Editor. Year/Pages: 2004: 1042 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 15, Northeast Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Bruce G. Trigger, Vol. Ed. 924 pp. 73 chapters on Indians from Virginia to Saint Lawrence River, Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, Illinois. Year/Pages: 1978: 924 p.; ill. Handbook of North American Indians, V. 17, Languages Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Ives Goddard, Vol. Ed. 957 pp. 27 chapters on native languages of North America spoken by American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts. Fold-out, color map. Year/Pages: 1996: 971 p.; ill., 2 maps in pocket. [ Top ]
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