The Desert People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Desert People write by Ann Nolan Clark. This book was released on 1962. The Desert People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
People of the Desert and Sea
People of the Desert and Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook People of the Desert and Sea write by Richard Stephen Felger. This book was released on 2016-10-11. People of the Desert and Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "People of the Desert and Sea is one of those books that should not have to wait a generation or two to be considered a classic. A feast for the eye as well as the mind, this ethnobotany of the Seri Indians of Sonora represents the most detailed exploration of plant use by a hunting-and-gathering people to date. . . . Scholarship in the best sense of the term—precise without being pedantic, exhaustive without exhausting its readers."—Journal of Arizona History "To read and gaze through this elegantly illustrated book is to be exposed, as if through a work of science fiction, to an astonishing and unknown cultural world."—North Dakota Quarterly
Desert Peoples
Desert Peoples - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desert Peoples write by Peter Veth. This book was released on 2008-04-15. Desert Peoples available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core deserts of Africa Examines the key concepts vital to understanding human adaptation to marginal landscapes and the behavioral and belief systems that underpin them Explores the relationship among desert hunter-gatherers, herders, and pastoralists
Desert People
Desert People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desert People write by Mervyn J. Meggitt. This book was released on 1962. Desert People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ethnography of the Walbiri (Waljbiri); physical environment, includes table of Walbiri flora, with language and Latin names, uses; history from 1862, contacts with Australian explorers, pastoral settlement, violent conflict, establishment of Aboriginal settlements; contemporary distribution, numbers, relations with neighbouring groups, ethnocentrism; local organisation, sections, subsections, personal mobility in relation to religious significance of country; kinship system, residential family unit, marital relations, discord, elopements, adultery; socialisation, relations between parents and children, other kinfolk; moieties, descent; progressions through agegrades; law, social control; betrothal, marriage, childbirth; initiation, circumcision, subincision; death, funerary practices, child vs adult, man vs woman, causes of death, mourning.
Gathering the Desert
Gathering the Desert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gathering the Desert write by Gary Paul Nabhan. This book was released on 1985. Gathering the Desert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw
