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Abstract: Native American tribes living on the Great Plains have long attracted the attention of Euro-American scholars, inspiring over the years a vast quantity of research. The contributors to this volume discuss and evaluate all the major works of scholarship devoted to the culture of Plains Indians, from the arrival of these peoples on the North American grasslands thousands of years ago, through their subsequent Village and High Plains lifeways, to their present-day adaption to reservation and urban life. Toghether, the twenty-two authors undertake a comprehensive survey of the state of anthropology on the Plains: what it has been, what it is now, and what it may offer theory and method in the future. -- From interior dustjacket

Contents: The Plains setting / B. Miles Gilbert -- The influence of Plains ethnography on the development of anthropological theory / E. Adamson Hoebel -- The Plains culture area concept / Richard Scaglion -- Prehistoric studies on the Plains / Alfred E. Johnson and W. Raymond Wood -- An overview of Great Plains physical anthropology / David V. Hughey -- Studies in Plains linguistics : a review / Robert C. Hollow and Douglas R. Parks -- Plains trade in prehistoric and protohistoric intertribal relations / W. Raymond Wood -- The ethnohistorical approach in Plains area studies / Mildred Mott Wedel and Raymond J. DeMallie -- Plains economic analysis : the Marxist complement / Alan M. Klein -- Morgan's problem : the influence of Plains ethnography on the ethnology of kinship / John H. Moore -- Social control on the Plains / Garrick Bailey -- The Sun Dance / Margot Liberty -- The Ghost Dance / Omer C. Stewart -- The Native American church / Omer C. Stewart -- Plains Indian art / Mary Jane Schneider -- Plains Indian music and dance / William K. Powers -- Psychological anthropology / Margot Liberty and Robert Morais --The formal education of Plains Indians / Janet Goldenstein Ahler -- Plains Indian women : an assessment / Katherine M. Weist -- Research in health and healing in the Plains / Luis S. Kemnitzer -- Peoples of the Plains / compiled by Douglas R. Parks, Margot Liberty, and Andrea Ferenci.

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