Gatherers and Farmers in the Greater Southwest: A Problem in Classification (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Kirchoff, Paul (1900-1972)

Publisher: American Anthropologist  (Journal)

Pub Date: 1954

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears.  Upper front cover corner has location information–ex-library?  I don’t think so.  There are no other library or personal markings throughout.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend, extends diminishing through first four or five pages.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1/2″ bend, extends through entire volume.  Lower front cover corner at spine foot has an approx. 1″ bend, extends through entire volume.  Foxing, sunning to front and rear spine edges.

Notes:  Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Originally published in American Anthropologist, Volume 56, No. 4, August 1954.  The problem of “Classification” in the title is primarily a division of area and culture–“Arid America, which gathers, and Oasis America, which farms.” (Page 556).  “It would, for instance, probably be acceptable to continue using the terms ‘Southwest’ and ‘Southwestern Culture,’ if used exclusively for the farmers, while coining a different term for the gatherers and part-farmers….Arid America, stresses the essential dependence of man on nature at a food-gathering level, and the other, Oasis America, his more active intervention on a farming level, through the creation of agricultural and cultural oases in an arid region.” (Page 550)