Leland Donald
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520206168
- eISBN:
- 9780520918115
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520206168.003.0013
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter focuses on captivity and slavery in aboriginal cultures in the Southeast and Northwest Coast of North America, discussing some possible servile statuses found in aboriginal eastern North ...
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This chapter focuses on captivity and slavery in aboriginal cultures in the Southeast and Northwest Coast of North America, discussing some possible servile statuses found in aboriginal eastern North American societies in order to provide a continent-wide context for Northwest Coast slavery. It explains that the common starting point of slavery for both the Northwest Coast and eastern North America was captives taken in intergroup fighting, who either became slaves or tortured and killed, before, or shortly after, they arrived in their captors' home communities.Less
This chapter focuses on captivity and slavery in aboriginal cultures in the Southeast and Northwest Coast of North America, discussing some possible servile statuses found in aboriginal eastern North American societies in order to provide a continent-wide context for Northwest Coast slavery. It explains that the common starting point of slavery for both the Northwest Coast and eastern North America was captives taken in intergroup fighting, who either became slaves or tortured and killed, before, or shortly after, they arrived in their captors' home communities.
Leland Donald
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520206168
- eISBN:
- 9780520918115
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520206168.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America contributes to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area, and shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively ...
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This investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America contributes to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area, and shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross-cultural definition of slavery. Arguing that slaves and slavery were central to these hunting-fishing-gathering societies, the book points out how important slaves were to the Northwest Coast economies for their labor and for their value as major items of exchange. Slavery also played a major role in more famous and frequently analyzed Northwest Coast cultural forms such as the potlatch and the spectacular art style and ritual systems of elite groups. The book includes detailed chapters on who owned slaves and the relations between masters and slaves; how slaves were procured; transactions in slaves; the nature, use, and value of slave labor; and the role of slaves in rituals. In addition to analyzing all the available data, ethnographic and historic, on slavery in traditional Northwest Coast cultures, it compares the status of Northwest Coast slaves with that of war captives in other parts of traditional Native North America.Less
This investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America contributes to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area, and shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross-cultural definition of slavery. Arguing that slaves and slavery were central to these hunting-fishing-gathering societies, the book points out how important slaves were to the Northwest Coast economies for their labor and for their value as major items of exchange. Slavery also played a major role in more famous and frequently analyzed Northwest Coast cultural forms such as the potlatch and the spectacular art style and ritual systems of elite groups. The book includes detailed chapters on who owned slaves and the relations between masters and slaves; how slaves were procured; transactions in slaves; the nature, use, and value of slave labor; and the role of slaves in rituals. In addition to analyzing all the available data, ethnographic and historic, on slavery in traditional Northwest Coast cultures, it compares the status of Northwest Coast slaves with that of war captives in other parts of traditional Native North America.
Michael Siegal
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199582884
- eISBN:
- 9780191702358
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582884.003.0006
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
To characterize and act upon the world of objects, children in every culture count. Counting is as natural as walking and talking – an adaptive specialization for numerical problem solving. But are ...
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To characterize and act upon the world of objects, children in every culture count. Counting is as natural as walking and talking – an adaptive specialization for numerical problem solving. But are children's number abilities tied to understanding the meaning of the words that we use for counting? This chapter examines related issues: whether children's early theory of number is limited to the discrete whole numbers that are used for counting or whether they are prompted to accommodate their theory to take into account numerical relations which fill the gap between integers. It also examines children in aboriginal cultures, such as those found in Brazil and Australia, who acquire a language with few words for counting, taking into account their mathematical reasoning.Less
To characterize and act upon the world of objects, children in every culture count. Counting is as natural as walking and talking – an adaptive specialization for numerical problem solving. But are children's number abilities tied to understanding the meaning of the words that we use for counting? This chapter examines related issues: whether children's early theory of number is limited to the discrete whole numbers that are used for counting or whether they are prompted to accommodate their theory to take into account numerical relations which fill the gap between integers. It also examines children in aboriginal cultures, such as those found in Brazil and Australia, who acquire a language with few words for counting, taking into account their mathematical reasoning.
