The Chumash world at European contact
Subtitle: power, trade, and feasting among complex hunter-gatherers
By: Lynn H. Gamble.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780520254411
Subjects: Chumash Indians -- History; Chumash Indians -- Social life and customs; Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- California; Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration; California -- Discovery and exploration; California -- History -- To 1846
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Chumash at historic contact; title: The environment and its management; title: Cultural setting; title: Historic Chumash settlements on the mainland coast; title: Village and household organization; title: Subsistence and feasting; title: Rank, ritual, and power; title: Economics and exchange : manifestations of wealth finance; title: Conflict and social integration; title: The Chumash, Pomo, and Patwin : comparative analysis and final thoughts.