Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state

Examines and describes the various customs of North American Indian tribes to explain the evolution of man as a social being - his relationships with his family and kin groups, his religious and his political institutions. Includes Eskimos, Sub-arctic Indians, Plains Indians, Aztec Indians, and Pueb...

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Main Author: Farb, Peter.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Dutton, 1968.
Physical Description: xx, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition: [1st ed.].
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100 1 |a Farb, Peter. 
245 1 0 |a Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state /  |c Peter Farb. 
250 |a [1st ed.]. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Dutton,  |c 1968. 
300 |a xx, 332 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 24 cm. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent. 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia. 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier. 
500 |a Second ed. published in 1978 under title: Man's rise to civilization. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-320). 
520 |a Examines and describes the various customs of North American Indian tribes to explain the evolution of man as a social being - his relationships with his family and kin groups, his religious and his political institutions. Includes Eskimos, Sub-arctic Indians, Plains Indians, Aztec Indians, and Pueblo Indians. 
505 0 |a Foreword / Elman R. Service. -- Part one: The evolution of complexity. 1. A laboratory for modern man (The first Americans ; How cultures change ; Differences and similarities in the cultures of mankind ; Man as a social animal). -- [2-5] The band. 2. Great Basin Shoshone : cultural impoverishment (Of apes and men ; The irreducible minimum of human society ; Incest ; The most leisured people ; Cooperation ; Adjusting to a White world). 
505 0 |a 3. Eskimo : environment and adaptation (The far-flung people ; Sociality and survival ; Wife-lending and other exchanges ; Feuds and duels ; A Communistic society? ; The birth of the gods ; The shaman, dealer in the supernatural ; Taboos : handicaps to survival?) -- 4. The Sub-Arctic : living with expediency (The composite band ; Capitalism : innate or acquired? ; The hunting territory ; The social function of anxiety ; An explanation of reincarnation ; Totem and taboo) -- 5. Southern California : the potentialities of the band (The patrilocal band ; Lineages, moieties, and sacred bundles ; Puberty rites ; Cultural hybrids). 
505 0 |a [6-10] The tribe. 6. Zuni : unity through religion (The Pueblo Indians ; The clan ; The woman's role ; Zuni religion ; Ritual and memorial day ; The "peaceful" Pueblo? ; Rites of rebellion) -- 7. Iroquois : primitive democracy ("The Greeks of America ; The democracy of the League and Marxism ; Great men and great events ; Warfare in the woodlands ; The Great Spirit and monotheism ; False faces) -- 8. Plains : equestrian revolution (The great American epic ; A living experiment in culture change ; The make-believe Indians ; Coups and scalping ; Causes of warfare ; The new rich ; Visions quests ; The end of a culture). 
505 0 |a [9-10] The chiefdom. 9. Northwest Coast : status and wealth (The affluent societies of the Pacific Coast ; A complex social organization ; Rank and status ; Sumptuary laws ; Primitive slavery ; Specialists in religion and art ; Totem poles ; The economics of prestige ; The rise and fall of chiefdoms) -- 10. Natchez : people of the sun (The French romantics ; The great sun ; Ruler as supreme priest ; Caste versus class ; The last of the mound builders). [11] The state. 11. Aztec : study in total power (The rise to respectability ; The Valley of Mexico ; The conquest by Cortes ; The Aztec state ; Class and clan ; Warriors and priests ; The death of the sun). 
505 0 |a Part two: The long migration. 12. The peopling of North America (The continent that had never known man ; Over the land bridge ; Paths across the continent ; The earliest big-game hunters ; The great extinction ; Preadapted cultures emerge ; The desert culture and the Eastern Archaic ; Beginnings of agriculture ; Transpacific contacts? ; The flowering of diversity ; The Eastern woodlands ; The mound builders) -- 13. The generations of Adam (The missing skeletons ; The evidence of the skulls ; The American race ; Half a thousand tongues ; Dating by language ; Man at the mercy of his language). 
505 0 |a Part three: Societies under stress. 14. The end of the trail (First encounters ; The Noble Red Man and the bloodthirsty savage ; The great removal ; The Cherokee ; The last stand) -- 15. Borrowed cultures (The debt to the Indian ; Squaw men ; Acculturation without assimilation ; The Navaho -- Navaho and Zuni war veterans) -- 16. The hopes of the oppressed (Revivalistic movements ; The first phase : recovery of lost cultures ; Dreamers ; The Ghost Dance ; The second phase : accommodation ; Peyotism ; Messiahs : Indian and others ; A society for the preservation of cultures). 
650 0 |a Indians of North America. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Indians  |x History. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Indians  |x Social conditions. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Ethnic relations. 
651 0 |a United States  |x History. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Civilization. 
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655 4 |a Nonfiction. 
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776 0 8 |i Online version:  |a Farb, Peter.  |t Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state.  |b [1st ed.].  |d New York, Dutton, 1968  |w (OCoLC)609248126. 
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |a Farb, Peter.  |t Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state.  |b [1st ed.].  |d New York, Dutton, 1968  |w (OCoLC)609429456. 
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