North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence
By: edited by Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza.
Contributors: Chacon, Richard J., 1959-; Mendoza, Ruben G.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
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 (p. [233]-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Traditional native warfare in western Alaska / Ernest S. Burch, Jr.; title: "Barbarism and ardour of war from the tenderest years" : Cree-Inuit warfare in the Hudson Bay Region / Charles A. Bishop and Victor P. Lytwyn; title: Aboriginal warfare on the Northwest coast : did the potlatch replace warfare? / Joan A. Lovisek; title: Ethnohistoric descriptions of Chumash warfare / John R. Johnson; title: Documenting conflict in the prehistoric Pueblo Southwest / Polly Schaafsma; title: Cahokia and the evidence for late pre-Columbian war in the North American midcontinent / Thomas E. Emerson; title: Iroquois-Huron warfare / Dean R. Snow; title: Desecrating the sacred ancestor temples : chiefly conflict and violence in the American Southeast / David H. Dye and Adam King; title: Warfare, population, and food production in prehistoric eastern North America / George R. Milner; title: The osteological evidence for indigenous warfare in North America / Patricia M. Lambert; title: Ethical considerations and conclusions regarding indigenous warfare and violence in North America / Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza.