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Bears - Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native Eastern North America (Hardcover)
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Bears - Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native Eastern North America (Hardcover)
Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
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Although scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears
in Indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the
first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and
historical research on the topic. Bears charts the special
relationship between the American black bear and humans in eastern
Native American cultures across thousands of years. These essays
draw on zooarchaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic
evidence from nearly 300 archaeological sites from Quebec to the
Gulf of Mexico. Contributors explore the ways bears have been
treated as something akin to another kind of human-in the words of
anthropologist Irving Hallowell, "other than human persons"-in
Algonquian, Cherokee, Iroquois, Meskwaki, Creek, and many other
Native cultures. Case studies focus on bear imagery in Native art
and artifacts; the religious and economic significance of bears and
bear products such as meat, fat, oil, and pelts; bears in Native
worldviews, kinship systems, and cosmologies; and the use of bears
as commodities in transatlantic trade. The case studies in Bears
demonstrate that bears were not only a source of food, but were
also religious, economic, and political icons within Indigenous
cultures. This volume convincingly portrays the black bear as one
of the most socially significant species in Native eastern North
America. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley
P. Bullen Series
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