The Wintu & their neighbors
Subtitle: a very small world-system in northern California
By: Christopher Chase-Dunn & Kelly M. Mann.
Contributors: Mann, Kelly M. 1971-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Wintu Indians -- Economic conditions; Wintu Indians -- Social life and customs
Other titles: Wintu and their neighbors
Description: On the cutting edge of world-systems theory comes The Wintu and Their Neighbors: A Very Small World-System in Northern California, the first case study to compare and contrast systematically in indigenous Native American society with the modern world at large. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, and history, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly M.

Mann have scoured the archaeological record of the Wintu, an aboriginal people without agriculture, metallurgy, or class structure, who lived in the wooded valleys and hills of Northern California. By studying the household composition, kinship, and trade relations of the Wintu, they call into question some of the basic assumptions of prior sociological theory and analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: The comparative study of world-systems; title: Stateless world-systems; title: Indigenous systems in North America; title: The north valley of California; title: The valley and the hills; title: Spouses and allies; title: Wintu expansion; title: The whole system; title: Conclusions.