Powers stephen heizer robert f (13 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Foxing to edges, otherwise text clean and tight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 508 pages.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good condition soft cover book. Very slight shelf wear to covers and creasing to corners. Slightest bumping to spine edges. Slightest smudging to text block edges. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never X-library unless specifically described as such.…

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. "Designed and printed by Lawton and Albert Kennedy on copyright pageFront colophon: "Number 23 in the series of Keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members." 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." Fifty-seven pages, complete. Black and white plates and one color frontispiece, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Minuscule edge wear. A Fine copy. "Note" in the front: "'Californian Indian Characteristics' was first published in the Overland Monthly, volume 14, number 4, for April, 1875. 'Centennial Mission to the Indians of Western Nevada and California' was first published in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1876. This Keepsake was prepared for publication by J. R. K. Kantor, with the assistance of Lawrence Dinnean, Vivian C. Fisher, and Olivia Inaba." Stephen Powers (1840-1904) was an American ethnographer, journalist, and historian of Indigenous tribes in the United States. His perspectives and writings about Indigenous cultures and people were very forward-thinking in his time, as he painted a sympathetic view toward their plight during a time when colonization was well underway and national policy toward Indigenous communities was hostile. The following is an excerpt from one of Powers's writings in 1875: "Never before in the history has a people been swept away with such terrible swiftness, or so appalled into utter and unwhispering silence forever and forever, as were the California Indians ." This pamphlet includes reprints of two of Powers's articles about the cultures of Indigenous tribes in California and Nevada. Also included is a Preface by N. Scott Momaday and an essay, "Stephen Powers as Anthropologist" by Robert F. Heizer.…

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Condizione: New. In English.

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paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1975, May. Journals, North America, Native Americans. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility number 25 221p. Very good paper/monograph 3/25 ww.