Gebundenes Buch

Bears

Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native Eastern North America

Herausgeber: Lapham, Heather A; Waselkov, Gregory A

Beschreibung

Although scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears in indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and historical research on the topic. Bears charts the special relationship between the American black bear and humans in eastern Native American cultures across thousands of years.

Autor

Heather A. Lapham is a research archaeologist in the Research Laboratories of Archaeology and adjunct associate professor of archaeology and anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians. Gregory Waselkov is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of South Alabama. His many books include A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Florida Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9781683401384
• ISBN-10: 1683401387
• Artikelnr.: 56151918