Essays in historical anthropology of North America
By: published in honor of John R. Swanton in celebration of his fortieth year with the Smithsonian Institution.
Contributors: Nichols, Frances Sellman Gaither, 1869-
Series: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections ;; v. 100; Publication (Smithsonian Institution) ;; 3588.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Subjects: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958.; Indians of North America -- Antiquities.; North America -- Antiquities.
Other titles: Historical anthropology of North America
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
--Native cultures of the intermontane (Great Basin) area, by J.H. Steward.--Southern peripheral Athapaskawan origins, divisions, and migrations, by J.P. Harrington.--Outline of Eskimo prehistory, by H.B. Collins, Jr.--Bibliography of anthropological papers by John R. Swanton, compiled by Francis S. Nichols (p. 593-600)
Table of contents: title: The work of John R. Swanton, by A.L. Kroeber.; title: Introduction, by J.H. Steward.; title: Some historical implications of physical anthropology in North America, by T.D. Stewart.; title: Developments in the problem of the North American paleo-Indian, by F.H.H. Roberts, Jr.; title: The historic method as applied to southeastern archeology, by M.W. Stirling.; title: Virginia before Jamestown, by D.I. Bushnell, Jr.; title: Problems arising from the historic northeastern position of the Iroquois, by W.N. Fenton.; title: Archeological perspectives in the northern Mississippi valley, by F.M. Setzler.; title: Culture sequences in the central great plains, by W.R. Wedel.; title: From history to prehistory in the northern great plains, by W.D. Strong.; title: Some Navaho culture changes during two centuries (with a translation of the early eighteenth century Rabal manuscript), by W.W. Hill.; title: Progress in the Southwest, by N.M. Judd.