Penobscot Man

Penobscot Man is an ethnographic classic written by Frank Speck, an anthropologist trained to reconstruct traditional Native American, or Indian, lifeways. This is the original 1940 edition of Frank Speck’s classic ethnographic study, with thirty photo­graphs collected by the author. When Frank Speck began his fieldwork early in the twentieth century, practitioners of the new field of anthropology witnessed the low point of native populations. Once populous groups had vanished, others were so decimated that only remnants of their traditional behavior remained. The reconstruction of lifestyles, or cultures, prior to the radical changes caused by European contact constituted a major research goal. Author: Frank G. Speck. Hardcover; 404 pages, illustrated with photographs and line drawings.