Comanche Society
Subtitle: Before the Reservation (The West and Southwest Series, 23)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781585441907
Subjects: American history; Indigenous peoples; Native American; Native American Sociology; Native Americans - Plains; History; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; History: World; USA; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Comanche Indians; Kinship; Social life and customs
Description: "Once called the Lords of the Plains, the Comanches were long portrayed as loose bands of marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction of horses to raise their people out of primitive poverty through bison hunting and fierce warfare. More recent studies of the Comanches have focused on adaptation and persistence in Comanche lifestyles and on Comanche political organization and language-based alliances.

In Comanche Society: Before the Reservation, Gerald Betty develops an exciting and sophisticated perspective on the driving force of Comanche life: kinship. Betty details the kinship patterns that underlay all social organization and social behavior among the Comanches and uses the insights gained to explain the way Comanches lived and the way they interacted with the Europeans who recorded their encounters."--BOOK JACKET.