Catherine M. Cameron provides a detailed comparative study of captive-taking in small-scale societies and explores the profound impacts captives had on the societies they joined. Cameron’s book opens new avenues of research about captives as significant sources of culture change.

 

Catherine M. Cameron is a professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House and Invisible Citizens: Captives and Their Consequences.

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Acknowledgments
1. The Captive in Space, Time, and Mind
2. Captive Taking in Global Perspective
3. The Captive as Social Person
4. Captives and the Creation of Power
5. Captives, Social Boundaries, and Ethnogenesis
6. Captives and Cultural Transmission
7. Captives in Prehistory
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