The Wintu and Their Neighbors:
A Very Small World-System in
Northern California
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly Mann
University of Arizona Press
Table of Contents
Preface (3067 words) 1
Chapter 1: The Comparative Study of World-Systems (7144 words) 12
Chapter 2: Stateless World-Systems (6716 words) 45
Chapter 3: Indigenous Systems in North America (8465 words) 72
Chapter 4: California: the North Valley (6372 words) 105
Chapter 5: The Valley and the Hills : Settlement Systems and Conflict 131 (5948 words)
Chapter 6: Spouses and Allies (3636 words) 154
Chapter 7: Wintu Expansion (6754 words) 168
Chapter 8: The Whole System (2876 words) 195
Chapter 9: Conclusions (4685 words) 207
Notes 226
References (8173 words) 240
Index
Tables
Table 1: Populations, Territorial Sizes and Population Densities
Table 2: Precontact Conflict Events Matrix
Table 3: Ratios of Interlinguistic to Total Marriages: pre and postcontact
Table 4: Ratios of Wife-Taking to All Interlinguistic Marriages: pre and postcontact
Table 5: Ratios of Wife-Taking to All Interlinguistic Marriages: precontact only
Table 6: Matrix of Marriages: pre and postcontact
Table 7: Wintu Rates of Advance based on C14 Dating of Shasta Complex
Table 8: Place Name Pairs and Pairs Per Kilometer of Border
Table 9: Placename Pairs: Calques and Borrowings
Table 10: Prevalence of Calques as a Proportion of Place Name Pairs
Figures
Figure 1: Spatial Boundaries of World-System Networks
Figure 2: The Emergence of the Central System
Figure 3: Interaction Nets in Northern California
Figure 4: Wintu Territory and that of Surrounding Groups
Figure 5: The Wintu Settlement System: Village Sizes
Figure 6a: Wintu Settlement and Subsistence Pattern
Figure 6b: Yana Settlement and Subsistence Pattern
Figure 7: Carbon 14 Dates Marking the Advance of the Shasta Complex