Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants - The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers (Paperback, New Ed)

CaliforniaOCOs earliest European colonistsOCoRussian merchants and Spanish missionariesOCodepended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of the pastOCoincluding little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and archaeological excavationsOCoto present a vivid new view of how native cultures fared under these two colonial systems. Kent LightfootOCOs innovative work, which incorporates the holistic methods of historical anthropology, explores the surprising ramifications of these long-ago encounters for the present-day political status of native people in California.Lightfoot weaves the results of his own significant archaeological research at Fort Ross, a major Russian mercantile colony, into a cross-cultural comparison, showing how these two colonial venturesOCoone primarily mercantile and one primarily religiousOCocontributed to the development of new kinds of native identities, social forms, and tribal relationships. His lively account includes personal anecdotes from the field and a provocative discussion of the role played by early ethnographers, such as Alfred Kroeber, in influencing which tribes would eventually receive federal recognition. "Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants" takes a fascinating, yet troubling, look at CaliforniaOCOs past and its role in shaping the state today."

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	November 2006
Authors:	Kent G. Lightfoot
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	355
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-24998-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-24998-4
Barcode:	9780520249981

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