Penobscot Man

by Frank Gouldsmith Speck

The original 1940 edition of Frank Speck’s classic ethnographic study, with thirty additional photo­graphs collected by the author and a new preface by anthropologist David SangerPlease see the University of Maine Press website for details. "Penobscot Man is an ethnographic classic written by an anthropologist trained to reconstruct traditional Native American, or Indian, lifeways. 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. This book is a representative example of that agenda." - from the preface by David Sanger

Genres: History

325 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1970

About the author

Frank Gouldsmith Speck was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was specialized in the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples of the United States and First Nations peoples of eastern boreal Canada.

He was the elder brother of Reinhard S. Speck.