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Ann Marie Plane is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England. Leslie Tuttle is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas and the author of Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France. Anthony F. C. Wallace is University Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the Univer...

The definitive history of the Tuscaroras and their return to western New York.

Anthony F. C. Wallace, one of the most influential American anthropologists of the modern era, brings together some of his most stimulating and celebrated essays. These essays feature his seminal work or revitalization movements, which has profoundly shaped our understanding of the processes of change in religious and political organizations--from the nineteenth-century code of the Seneca prophet known as Handsome Lake to the origins of world ...

Excerpt from The Modal Personality Structure of the Tuscarora Indians: As Revealed by the Rorschach Test The Bureau scientists and the Boas students have suggested answers to this question. Ethnologists agree that the affiliations of Iroquoian culture are southeastern, with the exception of some traits (such as shamanistic practices) which bear a northern stamp. For a time it was felt that the northern Iroquoians ha'd migrated from the south ...

In sixteen landmark essays Anthony F. C. Wallace illuminates the interconnections between cognition and culture and the formative social conditions of the modern world. Probing the psychological reality (or realities) of culture, Wallace offers incisive analyses of the cognitive foundations of kinship terms and the ability of cultures, past and present, to process complexity. He also examines whether beavers have a culture and reveals how the ...

A celebrated triumph of historiography, "Rockdale" tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors, owners, and entrepreneurs are brilliantly illuminated by Anthony F. C. Wallace, who also describes the complex technology that governed all of Rockdale's townspeople. Wallace examines the new re...

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Excerpt from Tornado in Worcester: An Exploratory Study of Individual and Community Behavior in an Extreme Situation The Committee on Disaster Studies of the National Research Council, during the spring and summer of 1953, undertook to carry on a series of exploratory field studies of disaster. Some of these studies were conducted by members of the Committee staff, some by persons retained as consultants, some by organizations under contract....

The poignant story of one of the Delaware Indians' greatest leaders is a classic of Native American studies. Using a psychological/anthropological approach that he largely invented, Wallace clearly demonstrates--better than anyone before or since--the tragedy of the Delawares' existence, caught between the English, the French, and the Iroquois. Painting a rich tapestry of the history and culture of the Delawares and of the sociopolitical conte...