CULTURAL AND NATURAL AREAS OF NATIVE NORTH AMERICA [SOLD]

CULTURAL AND NATURAL AREAS OF NATIVE NORTH AMERICA

By A. L. Kroeber

Condition: very good condition, some tears to slip cover

University of California Press, Berkley and Los Angeles, 1947.  Volume 38, pp xii + 1-242, 28 maps, issued December 1939, Reprinted 1947.

Hardback with slip cover

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Although the manuscript of this work was completed in 1931, publication was delayed by the depression, both at the University of California and at the Bureau of American Ethnology, which latter, generously, for a time hoped to be able to print it.  The years that have elapsed have brought substantial additions to knowledge, and references to the more important of them will be found in footnotes and special supplementary passages inserted in 1936 and (a few of them) in 1939.  The main body of the text stands as written in 1931.

From the CONTENTS

Objectives

History of concepts

            Environment in anthropology

            Culture areas, climaxes, and boundaries

            Relation of natural to cultural areas

Tribal areas

            List of works used for the tribal map

            List of works appearing since preparation of the tribal map

            Tribal synonyms

            Pronunciation of tribal names

Vegetation area

            Authorities used for the vegetation maps

            Concordance areas

Culture areas: Arctic Coast

            Sources of Eskimo culture

            Ecological phases

            Cultural classification and history

            Summary

Culture areas: Northwest Coast

Culture areas: Southwest

            1-2 Pueblo subculture type

            3-10 Sonora-Gila-Yuma subculture type

Culture areas: intermediate and Intermountain areas

            Great Basin

            California

            Columbia-Fraser Plateau

Culture areas: East and North

            Eastern areas

                        Southeast

                                    Muskogian and Creek

                        South Florida

                        South Texas: Northwest Gulf Coast

                        Red River area

                        Plains areas

                                    Southern Plains

                                    Northern Plains

                        Prairie areas

                                    Summary of tribal history in the plains-prairies

                        Wisconsin or Wild Rice area

                        Ohio Valley

                        Lower Great Lakes

                        Atlantic Coast Areas

                        Appalachian Summit

            Northern areas

                        Northern Great Lakes

                        Eastern Subarctic

                        Western Subarctic

            Relations of Eastern and Northern areas

            Eastern archaeological areas

Culture areas: Mexico and Central America

Population

Physiographic areas

            United States

            Canada

            Mexico

            Physiography and culture

Relations of environment and cultural factors

Agriculture

Cultural intensity and climax