Buy this book on-line WHITE, JON MANCHIP: : Everyday Life of the NORTH AMERICAN INDIANLONDON.B.T BATSFORD LTD.,1979. ISBN 0713400439.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj (front - Hidatsa warrior in dress of the Dog Society); with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears present.
Miniscule rubbing and edgewear to both head+foot of spine/backstrip and corners too.Top edge coloured (green),fore-edge plain,bright and clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Unblemished,publisher's original dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine /backstrip with near immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xiipp+13-256pp [paginated] includes dedication,contents+ illustrations, maps+figures lists/tables,7 chapters,100+ b/w illus/photographs etc.,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a North American Indian b/w portrait photographic frntis.
Here is the story of the red man from his earliest beginnings,as an immigrant from the Asian mainland.This book traces his subsequent career as a nomad and hunter, when he spread throughout the length and breadth of the New World,and describes how eventually he settled down as a farmer and,before the advent of the Europeans, created brilliant and varied cultures distinguished by their elaborate architecture and forms of art.
The author devotes a separate chapter to each of the Indian's leading activities at the period of his greatest glory: as hunter and farmer,as athlete and warrior, as spouse and parent,as witchdoctor and worshipper,as artist and craftsman.In doing so,Professor Manchip White builds up and presents to the reader a comprehensive picture of a remarkable and tragic people, a people who moreover are still struggling with courage and persistence to survive and flourish in our own difficult days after their dramatic decline of the past three centuries.This book is unusual in that it attempts to present the story of the American Indian in greater depth and perspective than usual; although its approach is popular,it is serious and systematic,attempting to avoid the frivolous and over-glamourized approach which has characterized many of the accounts of this unique and impressive race.A title from Batsford's 'Everyday Life' series.
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