Julian Steward and the Great Basin: The Making of an Anthropologist, by Clemmer, O. Richard, L. Daniel Myers, and Mary Elizabeth Rudden, Editors
Inventory #: 00821
Price: $20.00

For credit card orders through PayPal (United States Media Mail shipping only)			For all other purchases

Julian Steward and the Great Basin: The Making of an Anthropologist, by Clemmer, O. Richard, L. Daniel Myers, and Mary Elizabeth Rudden, Editors. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City, Utah, 1999. Edition: First edition. ISBN: 0874805945. Hardcover, 8vo, xxii, 288 pages. Mustard colored cloth with brown lettering on spine. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs and maps. Includes an extensive list of references, contributors, and an Index.

Condition: As New.

Contents: Julian Steward and the Great Basin is a critical assessment of Steward's work, the factors that influenced him, and his deep effect on American anthropology. Steward (1902-1972) was one of the foremost American exponents of cultural ecology, the idea that societies evolve in adaptation to their human and natural environments. He was also central in shaping basic anthropological constructs such as "hunter-gatherer" and "adaptation." But his fieldwork took place almost entirely in the Great Basin of California, Nevada, and Utah.

There is a different contributor for each chapter in the book:

1. Learning the Land, VIRGINIA KERNS
2. Juliam Steward and Utah Archaeology, JOEL C. JANETSKI
3. Numic Pronghorn Exploitation: A Reassessment of Stewardian-Derived Models of Big-Game Hunting in the Great Basin, BROOKE S. ARKUSH
4. In the Field in Death Valley: Julian Steward's Panamint Shoshone Fieldwork, CATHERINE S. FOWLER, MOLLY DUFORT, MARY K. RUSCO, and PAULINE ESTEVES
5. A Revisionist View of Julian Steward and the Great Basin Paradigm from the North, DEWARD E. WALKER JR.
6. The Yamparika -- Shoshones, Comanches, or Utes -- or Does It Matter? JAMES A GOSS
7. Julian Steward, the Western Shoshones, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs: A Failure to Communicate, ELMER R. RUSCO
8. Julian Steward's Vision of the Great Basin: A Critique and Response, STEVEN J. CRUM
9. A Frame for Culture: Observations on the Culture-Element Distribution of the Snake River Shoshone, L. DANIEL MYERS/li>
10. Steward's Gap: Why Steward Did Not Use His Theory of Culture Change to Explain Shoshoni Culture Change, RICHARD O. CLEMMER
11. Where Were Wovoka and Wuzzi George? ALICE B. KEHOE
12. Rethinking Cultural Ecology, Multilinear Evolution, and Expert Witnesses: Julian Steward and the Indian Claims Commisison Proceedings, SHEREE RONAASEN, RICHARD O. CLEMMER, and MARY ELIZABETH RUDDEN
13. Julian Steward and the Politics of Representation, NED BLACKHAWK
14. Julian Steward and the Construction of Area-Studies Research in the United States, THOMAS C. PATTERSON an ANTONIO LAURIA-PERRICELLI