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anthropology
Author_Douglas J. Kennett
california
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chumash
coastal village
coastline
cultural evolution
ecology
environment
environment studies
environmental events
environmental history
environmentalism
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ethnography
folklore
geography
hbe
history
human behavioral ecology
hunter gatherer
indigenous culture
indigenous people
islands
maritime
myth
native american
nature
nonfiction
northern channel islands
social science
southern california
the island chumash
traditional societies
west coast
Product details
- ISBN 9780520243026
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Colonized as early as 13,500 years ago, the Northern Channel Islands of California offer some of the earliest evidence of human habitation along the west coast of North America. The Chumash people who lived on these islands are considered to be among the most socially and politically complex hunter-gatherers in the world. This book provides a powerful and innovative synthesis of the cultural and environmental history of the chain of islands. Douglas J. Kennett shows that the trends in cultural elaboration were, in part, set into motion by a series of dramatic environmental events that were the catalyst for the unprecedented social and political complexity observed historically.
Douglas J. Kennett is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon.
