Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America

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Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America is a foundational anthropological work that systematically maps and analyzes the cultural and environmental regions of Indigenous peoples across North America.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic work
anthropological monograph
book
academicField Americanist anthropology
analyzes cultural regions of Native North America
natural environmental regions of Native North America
author Alfred L. Kroeber
Alfred Louis Kroeber NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States
discipline anthropology
examines correlations between ecology and culture
regional cultural patterns
focusesOn Indigenous cultures
North America
relationships between culture and environment
genre scholarly non-fiction
hasImpactOn the classification of Indigenous North American societies
the study of Native North American cultural diversity
hasPerspective early 20th-century American anthropology
influenced culture area classifications in anthropology
subsequent studies of Native North American ethnography
intendedAudience anthropologists
scholars of human geography
students of Native American studies
language English
mainSubject Indigenous peoples of North America
Native American cultures
cultural areas
environmental regions
maps distribution of Indigenous cultural traits
geographical regions of Native North America
methodology comparative ethnographic analysis
culture area approach
notableFor influence on culture area theory
integration of cultural and environmental data
systematic mapping of Native North American culture areas
relatedConcept culture area
environmental determinism (debated)
historical particularism
relatedWork Handbook of North American Indians
subdiscipline cultural anthropology
ethnology
timePeriodDiscussed early historic period of North America
pre-contact Indigenous North America
typeOfWork foundational anthropological work
usedIn university anthropology courses

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Alfred L. Kroeber
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