North American indigenous warfare and ritual violence / edited by Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza

Published:: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2007]
Copyright Date:: ©2007
Physical Description:: ix, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Chacon, Richard J., 1959- and Mendoza, Ruben G.

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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.

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9780816525324 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0816525323 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-273) and index.

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