North American indigenous warfare and ritual violence
By: edited by Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza.
Contributors: Chacon, Richard J., 1959-; Mendoza, Rubén G.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816525324
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Warfare.; Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies.; Violence -- North America.; Social archaeology -- North America.; North America -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Traditional Native warfare in western Alaska / Ernest S. Burch, Jr.; "Barbarism and ardour of war from the tenderest years" : Cree-Inuit warfare in the Hudson Bay Region / Charles A. Bishop and Victor P. Lytwyn; Aboriginal warfare on the northwest coast : did the potlatch replace warfare? / Joan A. Lovisek; Ethnohistoric descriptions of Chumash warfare / John R. Johnson; Documenting conflict in the prehistoric Pueblo Southwest / Polly Schaafsma; Cahokia and the evidence for late pre-Columbian war in the North American midcontinent / Thomas E. Emerson; Iroquois-Huron warfare / Dean R. Snow; Desecrating the sacred ancestor temples : chiefly conflict and violence in the American Southeast / David H. Dye and Adam King; Warfare, population, and food production in prehistoric eastern North America / George R. Milner; The osteological evidence for indigenous warfare in North America / Patricia M. Lambert; Ethical considerations and conclusions regarding indigenous warfare and violence in North America / Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza.