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#553 Arts of Diplomacy - paperback
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Item # 553
Arts of Diplomacy; Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection
By Castle McLaughlin
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$40.00
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In "Arts of Diplomacy", anthropologist Castle McLaughlin demonstrates that Native Americans were active participants in these historic encounters with Lewis and Clark. Selecting objects of significance to bestow as gifts or use in trade, they skillfully negotiated their own strategic interests in their dealings with the exploring party. McLaughlin and her team of researchers tell a story of Native peoples who were sophisticated traders and cultlural brokers already engaged in a global exchange of goods and materials decades before the captains' arrival on the scene.
Social anthropologist Castle McLaughlin is associate curator of Native American ethnography at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Paperback, 416 pages
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