Author: William Morton Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Comparative Ethnology of the European and North American Ants
Author: William Morton Wheeler
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History: 59.59,6-59.81
Author: American Museum of Natural History. Library
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Freshwater Passages
Author: David Chapin
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803253419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740-1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known as a partner in Montreal's North West Company and as mentor to Alexander Mackenzie, who journeyed down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Sea. Knowing eighteenth-century North America on a scale that few others did, Pond drew some of the earliest maps of western Canada. In this meticulous biography, David Chapin presents Pond's life as part of a generation of traders who came of age between the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution. Pond's encounters with a plethora of distinct Native cultures over the course of his career shaped his life and defined his career. Whereas previous studies have caricatured Pond as quarrelsome and explosive, Chapin presents him as an intellectually curious, proud, talented, and ambitious man, living in a world that could often be quite violent. Chapin draws together a wide range of sources and information in presenting a deeper, more multidimensional portrait and understanding of Pond than hitherto has been available.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803253419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740-1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known as a partner in Montreal's North West Company and as mentor to Alexander Mackenzie, who journeyed down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Sea. Knowing eighteenth-century North America on a scale that few others did, Pond drew some of the earliest maps of western Canada. In this meticulous biography, David Chapin presents Pond's life as part of a generation of traders who came of age between the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution. Pond's encounters with a plethora of distinct Native cultures over the course of his career shaped his life and defined his career. Whereas previous studies have caricatured Pond as quarrelsome and explosive, Chapin presents him as an intellectually curious, proud, talented, and ambitious man, living in a world that could often be quite violent. Chapin draws together a wide range of sources and information in presenting a deeper, more multidimensional portrait and understanding of Pond than hitherto has been available.
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New York
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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American Indian Languages
Author: Lyle Campbell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195140508
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195140508
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Studying Contemporary Western Society
Author: Margaret Mead
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571818157
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture. Many of these essays were printed originally in limited circulation journals, research reports and books edited by others. They reflect Mead's continuing commitment to searching out methods for studying and extending the anthropologist's tools of investigation for use in complex societies. Essays on American and European societies, intergenerational relations, architecture and social space, industrialization, and interracial relations are included in this varied and exciting collection.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571818157
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture. Many of these essays were printed originally in limited circulation journals, research reports and books edited by others. They reflect Mead's continuing commitment to searching out methods for studying and extending the anthropologist's tools of investigation for use in complex societies. Essays on American and European societies, intergenerational relations, architecture and social space, industrialization, and interracial relations are included in this varied and exciting collection.
Explorations and Field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1913
Author: Smithsonian Institution
Publisher:
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Category : Scientific expeditions
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Publisher:
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Category : Scientific expeditions
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America
Author: Carmen Dagostino
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110712814
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110712814
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Smithsonian Institution
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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