Contents

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contributors V
3. Preface VII
4. Contents XI
5. The First Snake Song 1
6. Factors of Musical Style 29
7. Art Motifs and Prehistory in the Middle East 59
8. Predatory Birds and Prehistoric Man 79
9. Fusion and Separation: Archaeology and Ethnohistory in Southeastern North America 97
10. Afro-Americans, Africa, and America 125
11. Politics, Theory, and Racism in the Study of Black Children 153
12. Women, Work, and Property in a South American Tribe 179
13. Men and Women in Arab Peasant to Proletariat Transformation 195
14. The Dominant Dyad: Mother-Right and the Iroquois Case 221
15. A Continent Found, A Universe Lost 263
16. Encounter in the Field 285
17. The Periodization of World History According to Karl Marx 295
18. Theory, Practice, and Poetry in Vico 309
19. Boas on the Kwakiutl: The Ethnographic Tradition 331
20. Anthropology Begins at Home: Reflections of a Daughter 347
21. Some Salient Events in the Professional Life of Gene Weltfish 351
22. Selected Bibliography of Gene Weltfish 357