A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk
by Marshall, Ingeborg
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0773513906
- ISBN 13
- 9780773513907
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press [0-7735-1390-6] 1996. (Hardcover) 640pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. Frontispiece, photographs, illustrations, maps, tables, charts, diagrams, bibliography, notes, index. "In Part I, Ingeborg Marshall documents the history of the Beothuk from the first European encounter int he 1500s to their demise, focusing on relations between Beothuk and English through the centuries and the reasons for change in Beothuk distribution and population size... Part II is a comprehensive review of Beothuk culture. The book is beautifully and extensively illustrated with maps, portraits, photographs of Beothuk artifacts, burial sites, and camps, and a set of drawings by Shanawdithit". Locale: Canada. (Indians of North America, Beothuk Indians, Colonization, Ethnography, Indians of N.A., Indigenous Peoples--Canada, Settlement--Canada).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 149116
- Title
- A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk
- Author
- Marshall, Ingeborg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0773513906
- ISBN 13
- 9780773513907
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Place of Publication
- Montreal
- This edition first published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Indians of North America, Beothuk Indians, Colonization, Ethnography, Indians of N.A., Indigenous Peoples--Canada, Settlement--Canada
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ethnic Studies;
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