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The Chumash world at European contact : power, trade, and feasting among complex hunter-gatherers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gamble, Lynn H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Chumash Indians > History.
Chumash Indians > Social life and customs.
Indians of North America > First contact with Europeans > California.
Spain > Colonies > America > Administration.
California > Discovery and exploration.
California > History > To 1846.
Table of Contents:
  • The Chumash at historic contact : theoretical considerations
  • The environment and its management
  • Cultural setting
  • Historic Chumash settlements on the mainland coast
  • Village and household organization
  • Subsistence and feasting
  • Rank, ritual, and power
  • Economics and exchange : manifestations of wealth finance
  • Conflict and social integration
  • The Chumash, Pomo, and Patwin : comparative analysis and final thoughts.