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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: contextual analysis of nineteenth-century Indian burial artifacts on the Southern Plains
  name:
    name part: Walsh, William Edward.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 245 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
  abstract: This thesis contends that the relative uniformity of phics.
  abstract: the funerary material culture described as the
  abstract: ''Southern Plains Equestrian Nomad Archaeological
  abstract: Complex'' (Shafer et al 1994:322-323) is a consequence
  abstract: of an increasing emphasis place by the Southern Plains
  abstract: tribes of the nineteenth century on the similarities
  abstract: underpinning their cultures. The reasons given for
  abstract: this sense of accentuated commonality are: 1) a pre-
  abstract: existing undercurrent of shamanistic beliefs and world
  abstract: view shared by these tribes', 2) their similar
  abstract: cultural adaption to a common ecological and economic
  abstract: environment', 3) the interaction of their cultures
  abstract: with one another on the Southern Plains', and 4) the
  abstract: simultaneous interaction of their cultures with Euro-
  abstract: American cultures. This last type of interaction is
  abstract: held to have taken many forms, including the
  abstract: introduction of the horse and firearms, the intrusion
  abstract: of Euro-Americans in the existing networks of Indian
  abstract: trade, the introduction of Euro-American trade goods
  abstract: to Indian people, and the competition between Indians
  abstract: and non-Indians for territory and resources on the
  abstract: Southern Plains. The impact of these changes includes
  abstract: the development of a horse nomad lifeway, an new
  abstract: emphasis by Southern Plains Indian people on the
  abstract: acquisition of wealth (primarily based on the
  abstract: ownership of large herds of horses), and their gradual
  abstract: realization that growing numbers of Euro-Americans
  abstract: represented an increasing threat to their new-found
  abstract: prosperity and ultimately to their very existence.
  abstract: Based on the evidence that an accentuated sense of
  abstract: commonality prevailed among these tribes during this
  abstract: period, it is further concluded that meaningful
  abstract: interpretations of their burial artifacts can be
  abstract: achieved by considering those artifacts as a pad of
  abstract: the material expression of an outmarching Southern
  abstract: Plains horse nomad culture. Within this context, all
  abstract: of the burial artifacts are considered to be Indian
  abstract: artifacts, regardless of the source of the material
  abstract: they are made of or their place of original
  abstract: manufacture. Interpretations of a variety of funerary
  abstract: artifacts are made after an extensive historical and
  abstract: religious context is developed. Item types analyzed
  abstract: include hair pipe breast plates, and najas.
  note: by William Edward Walsh.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Anthropology".
  note: M.A. Texas A&M University 1998.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 219-239).
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 991111
    record change date: 20151021104235.0
    record identifier: in00001514298