Contributions To Alsea Ethnography

This volume presents the most recent archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts of South America. By broadening research questions, utilizing new analytical methods, and applying interdisciplinary interpretative frameworks, this volume offers new insights into a diverse array of perspectives on smoke plants and pipes.

The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas.

On the Indian Tribes Inhabiting the North-West Coast of America - John Scouler Alexander W. Chase and the Nineteenth-Century Archaeology and Ethnography of the Southern Oregon and Northern California Coast 1. Introduction - R. Lee Lyman 2. Siletz, or "Lo" Reconstructed [1869] - Alexander W. Chase 3. Indian Mounds and Relics on the Coast of Oregon [1873a] - Alexander W. Chase 4. Shell Mounds of Lat. 42°02', 42°05', & 42° 15', Coast of Oregon; Description of Stone and Other Implements Found in Them; with Some Notes on Existing Tribes of That Section of the Coast [1873d] - Alexander W. Chase 5. Chases' Correspondence Subsequent to the Coast Survey [1880-82] - Alexander W. Chase 6. Conclusions: Chase and Context - R. Lee Lyman

The publication of Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas in 1967 marked the first time that descriptive information on the peoples of the world—primitive, historical, and contemporary—had been systematically organized for the purposes of comparative research. In this volume, Murdock has completely revised this work, selecting 563 societies that are most fully and accurately described in ethnographic literature. The identification of each society gives its geographical coordinates and date, its identifying number in the Ethnographic Atlas, and an indication of whether it is included in the Human Relations Area Files or the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. In addition, bibliographical references are offered for each society. The information and suggested research techniques will be of value to comparativists in anthropology, history, political science, psychology and sociology. Most importantly, it offers a simple method fro choosing a valid sample of the world's known societies for cross-cultural research.

In 21 selected papers from an international conference in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1995, archaeologists from four continents share their experience in investigating human interactions with wetlands and demonstrate the importance of such terrain in the development of human societies throughout the ages. They cover human adaptations to wetland environments, past and present perspectives on wet sites, fishing technologies on the northwest coast of North America, and practical preservation and conservation. Other areas described include Boston's Back Bay, southeast England, the ancient Maya in Quintana Roo, the Russian far east, Sweden, Poland, and New Zealand. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR