Comanche society : before the reservation
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書誌事項
Comanche society : before the reservation
（The Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest, no. 23）
Texas A&M University Press, c2002
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index
収録内容
- Comanche kinship and society
- Comanche migration and geographic mobility
- Comanche horse pastoralism
- The nature of Comanche economics
- An explanation of Comanche violence
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内容説明
Once called the Lords of the Plains, the Comanches were long portrayed as marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction of horses to raise their people out of primitive poverty through bison hunting and fierce warfare. More recent studies of the Comanches have focused on adaptation and persistence in Comanche lifestyles and on their political organization and language-based alliances. In Comanche Society, Gerald Betty develops an exciting perspective on the driving force of Comanche life: kinship. He details the kinship patterns that underlay all social organization and behavior among the Comanches and uses these insights to explain the way Comanches lived and interacted with Europeans. This account analyzes the formation of clans, the hierarchy in family and generational relationships, and ancestor worship and related religious ceremonies. In clear language and detail, Betty considers a number of aspects of Comanche life - pastoralism, migration and nomadism, economics and trade, and warfare - and how these developed along kinship lines.
This is cutting-edge history, drawing not only on original research in extensive primary documents but also on theoretical perspectives from other disciplines.
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