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Food in California Indian culture / edited by Ira Jacknis.

Language: English Publisher: Berkeley : Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 2007.Description: x, 490 p. : ill. ports. ; 23cm.ISBN: 0936127082 (pbk); 9780936127088 (pbk)
Contents:
Introduction. Notes toward a culinary anthropology of Native California / Ira Jacknis. Overview. The food problem in California / Alfred L. Kroeber. Plants. Making acorn bread in Yosemite / Elizabeth Grinnell; The acorn, a possibly neglected source of food / C. Hart Merriam; Photographic portfolio: Sierran acorns, ca. 1902-8 / C. Hart Merriam; California Indian balanophagy / Edward W. Gifford. Animals. Photographic portfolio: Ishi (Yahi) hunting deer and rabbit, 1914 / Alfred L. Kroeber and Saxton T. Pope; Fish and the Miwok / Craig D. Bates; Shellfish foods of the California Indians / Robert E. Greengo; The army worm: a food of the Pomo Indians / Samuel A. Barrett. Tribal accounts. Life and culture of the Hupa / Pliny E. Goddard; The northern Maidu / Roland B. Dixon; Wintu ethnography / Cora A. Du Bois; Names on traditional foothill Nisenan food technology / Norman L. Wilson; Photographic portfolio: Elizabeth Enos (Nisenan Maidu) processing buckeyes, 1960 / Samuel A. Barrett and film crew; Ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of southern California / David P. Barrows; Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute / Julian H. Steward; Culinary practices of the Mohave Indians / Kenneth M. Stewart. Myth, ritual, and oratory. Karuk food myths / edited by Alfred L. Kroeber and Edward W. Gifford; A Pomo food tale / edited by Thomas C. Blackburn; A Sierra Miwok feast oration / edited by Edward W. Gifford; Photographic portfolio: a Konkow Maidu feast, 1903 / John W. Hudson; Subsistence rituals in Native California / Sean L. Swezey. Historical perspectives. Kashaya Pomo memories of food / Essie Parrish; Photographic portfolio: Kashaya Pomo foods, ca. 1960 / Samuel A. Barrett and film crew. Contemporary perspectives. Venison, acorns, and fry bread / David W. Peri; You'll never go hungry and Crab Louis and the Jitterbug / Kathleen R. Smith; Contemporary food customs / Beverly R. Ortiz; Photographic portfolio: contemporary food customs / Dugan Aguilar
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Includes bibliographuical references (p. 466-490).

Introduction. Notes toward a culinary anthropology of Native California / Ira Jacknis. Overview. The food problem in California / Alfred L. Kroeber. Plants. Making acorn bread in Yosemite / Elizabeth Grinnell; The acorn, a possibly neglected source of food / C. Hart Merriam; Photographic portfolio: Sierran acorns, ca. 1902-8 / C. Hart Merriam; California Indian balanophagy / Edward W. Gifford. Animals. Photographic portfolio: Ishi (Yahi) hunting deer and rabbit, 1914 / Alfred L. Kroeber and Saxton T. Pope; Fish and the Miwok / Craig D. Bates; Shellfish foods of the California Indians / Robert E. Greengo; The army worm: a food of the Pomo Indians / Samuel A. Barrett. Tribal accounts. Life and culture of the Hupa / Pliny E. Goddard; The northern Maidu / Roland B. Dixon; Wintu ethnography / Cora A. Du Bois; Names on traditional foothill Nisenan food technology / Norman L. Wilson; Photographic portfolio: Elizabeth Enos (Nisenan Maidu) processing buckeyes, 1960 / Samuel A. Barrett and film crew; Ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of southern California / David P. Barrows; Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute / Julian H. Steward; Culinary practices of the Mohave Indians / Kenneth M. Stewart. Myth, ritual, and oratory. Karuk food myths / edited by Alfred L. Kroeber and Edward W. Gifford; A Pomo food tale / edited by Thomas C. Blackburn; A Sierra Miwok feast oration / edited by Edward W. Gifford; Photographic portfolio: a Konkow Maidu feast, 1903 / John W. Hudson; Subsistence rituals in Native California / Sean L. Swezey. Historical perspectives. Kashaya Pomo memories of food / Essie Parrish; Photographic portfolio: Kashaya Pomo foods, ca. 1960 / Samuel A. Barrett and film crew. Contemporary perspectives. Venison, acorns, and fry bread / David W. Peri; You'll never go hungry and Crab Louis and the Jitterbug / Kathleen R. Smith; Contemporary food customs / Beverly R. Ortiz; Photographic portfolio: contemporary food customs / Dugan Aguilar

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