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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823388903321

Autore

Mitchell Peter <1962->

Titolo

Horse nations : the worldwide impact of the horse on Indigenous societies post-1492 / / Peter Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-100882-6

0-19-191676-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (477 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

636.1009

Soggetti

Horses - History

Horsemanship - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2015.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Horse Nations: The Worldwide Impact of the Horse on Indigenoussocieties Post-1492 ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Colour Plates""; ""List of Tables""; ""1: Introducing Horse Nations""; ""Beginnings""; ""At the borderlands of empires""; ""Why horses?""; ""Of big dogs and complex horses""; ""Courses for horses (or themes for Horse Nations)""; ""Approaching Horse Nations:  structure and organization""; ""A note on nomenclature""; ""Notes""; ""2: Ancestors""; ""Introduction""; ""Evolution""; ""The horse family today""

""The biology of the horse""""Hunters and horses""; ""After the ice""; ""The taming of the horse""; ""Horse Nations of Eurasia""; ""Notes""; ""3: A Prodigal Return""; ""Introduction""; ""Humans arrive in horseland""; ""They shoot horses: don�t they?""; ""Extinction: north""; ""Extinction: south""; ""A world without horses""; ""The return of the horse""; ""Flourishing mightily""; ""Notes""; ""4: North America I""; ""Introduction""; ""Before the horse""; ""The horses of Santiago""; ""Singing for horses""; ""Fighting on horses""; ""Keeping people safe and horses holy""

""Lords of the Southern Plains""""Comanche imperialism""; ""�A profound material revolution�""; ""Riding into the sunset""; ""The deer hunters""; ""Notes""; ""5: North America II: The Central and Northern



Plains""; ""Introduction""; ""Ecological background""; ""Peopling the Plains""; ""Keeping horses on the Plains""; ""â€?Big dogsâ€? and little dogs: changes in  transportation and settlement""; ""Buffalo runners: the horse as hunter""; ""Of furs and bison robes: trade and gender in  the age of the horse""; ""Horses as instruments of politics and war""; ""Imag(in)ing the horse""

""Horses of medicine and myth""""Equestrian villagers and equestrian nomads""; ""Horse wars""; ""Notes""; ""6: North America III: West of the Rockies""; ""Introduction""; ""Have horses, will raid: horses and slaves in the Great Basin""; ""Becoming like the Plains: the horse on the Columbia Plateau""; ""Horse-raiders of California""; ""�Do not trust the horse�""; ""Notes""; ""7: South America I: Caribbean Deserts and Tropical Savannahs""; ""La Guajira: introducing the Wayu�u""; ""Smugglers of the Caribbean""; ""Horses and other livestock""; ""Explaining horses the Wayu�u way""

""The Llanos: going without the horse?""""Jesuits and Horse Nations at the heart of South America""; ""Enter, the horse""; ""The missions and after""; ""The Kadiwe�u, Brazil�s �Indios cavaleiros�""; ""Notes""; ""8: South America II: The Southern Cone""; ""Geography and ethnography of the Southern Cone""; ""The War of Arauco""; ""Making horses Mapuche""; ""Free spirits: horses and cattle on the Pampas and in Patagonia""; ""Uniting the Cone: a regional pastoral economy""; ""Becoming Araucanian, becoming Tehuelche""; ""Archaeological perspectives on horses and other livestock""

""Patagonian horses in life and death""

Sommario/riassunto

'Horse Nations' provides the first globally comparative study of the impact of the horse on the indigenous societies of North and South America, southern Africa, and Australasia following its (re-)introduction as a result of European contacts and settlement after Columbus' first voyage to the Americas in 1492.