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

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