Objects of change : the archaeology and history of Arikara contact with Europeans / J. Daniel Rogers
1990, 1st edition. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #397185
ISBN: 0874748402
Physical description: xiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents: Material systems and culture contact -- The Arikaras in context [cosmology, ceremony, social organization, subsistence and economic organization, first encounters] -- Attitudes and trade [i.e. fur trade, goods in the trade network, etc.] -- Events and the outlines of change -- Strategies for analysis -- Sites and artifacts [middle Missouri, etc.] -- Analysis and results [domestic earthlodges, ceremonial earth lodges, burials, etc.]. Series: Smithsonian series in archaeological inquiry
Subjects: Arikara Indians History. Arikara Indians First contact with other peoples. Antiquities. American Indians Ethnology History.
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