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Measuring Cultural Complexity in Protohistoric Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Societies: Haida Gwaii Between Ca. 1650 and 1775 A.D.

Measuring Cultural Complexity in Protohistoric Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Societies: Haida Gwaii Between Ca. 1650 and 1775 A.D.

Newell, Raymond R.
Newell, Gillian E.

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AnthropologyIndigenous Studies

Publisher Price: $85.00

ISBN10: 9090298320
ISBN13: 9789090298320
Publisher: Washington St Univ Pr
Published: Jan 3 2017
Pages: 594
Weight: 3.65
Height: 1.40 Width: 8.20 Depth: 11.70
Language: English

Most studies of socio-cultural complexity have focused upon food-producing cultures and their progression through a number of evolutionary stages. Normatively, hunter-fisher-gatherer societies were denied any participation in, let alone contribution to, their linear march toward progress. While recognized as complex, Northwest Coast societies and/or cultures' were considered anomalous, aloof, and unique and therefore removed from the discussion and ignored. Worse still, because of such interpretations they were divorced from any discussion or comparison with their culturally similar Northern Athapaskan, Yupik, and Iñupiat neighbours. Only a small handful of studies pleaded for their inclusion in what they saw as a continuity of cultural development and grades of complexity. In order to restore the Northwest Coast societies and their cultures to their proper places in an understanding of hunter-fisher-gatherer societies and cultural developments, this work undertakes an integrated archaeological and ethnographic analysis of the Haida, who still live in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

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