Man's Rise to Civilization : The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America.

New York : E. P. Dutton, 1978., 1978. Good. Revised 2nd edition, 1st printing ; xxii, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; black cloth in pictorial dust jacket ; Contents: Part I. the evolution of complexity. 1. A laboratory for modern man ---- THE BAND. 2. Great Basin Shoshone: cultural impoverishment --- 3. Eskimo: environment and adaptation --- 4. The Sub-Arctic: living with expediency --- 5. Southern California: the potentialities ---- THE TRIBE. 6. Zuni: unity through religion --- 7. Iroquois: primitive democracy --- 8. Plains: equestrian revolution ---- THE CHIEFDOM. 9. Northwest coast: status and wealth --- 10. Natchez: people of the sun ---- THE STATE. 11. Aztec: study in total power ---- Part II. The long migration. 12. The peopling of North America --- 13. The generations of Adam ---- Part III. Societies under stress. 14. The end of the trail --- 15. Borrowed cultures --- 16. The hopes of the oppressed. ; ISBN: 0525152709 :; 9780525152705 LCCN: 77-24281 ; LC: E77; Dewey: 970/.004/97 ; OCLC: 3167419 ; Surveys the prehistory, history, biology, languages, and cultures of the North American Indians, explaining the varying social, political, economic, and cultural behaviors of bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states ; covers soiled and worn ; dustjacket clean and bright ; G/VG