Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups

by Julian Haynes Steward

Book Overview

This volume constitutes one of the earliest and most comprehensive ethnographic reconnaissance of the Western Shoshoni and some of their Northern Paiute, Ute, and Southern Paiute neighbors of the Great Basin. At the same time, it tries to ascertain the types of Shoshonean sociopolitical groups and to discover their ecological and social determinants.

First published in 1938 as the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874800145
• ISBN13: 9780874800142
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"