-Bennett's Northern Plainsmen provides a first-rate analysis of the cultural ecology of a modern agricultural community in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada.... The volume provides the non-anthropologists with a well-conceived study of the anthropological approach to modern cultural adaption.... [T]he author has contributed a thoughtful analysis of an interesting problem.-
--George J. Armelagos, American Scientist
-This is a study in cultural ecology involving the adaptive processes and relations of four groups: Plains Cree, cattle ranchers, wheat farmers, and Hutterites of southwestern Saskatchewan over a sixty year period.... Bennett has aptly demonstrated the falsity of the belief that anthropologists can learn nothing from a study of their own culture. The book merits reading by all those who are interested in ecology, economic anthropology, and culture change and is a significant addition to the relatively meager amount of anthropological information on Western culture.-
--Chalres A. Bishop, American Anthropologist
-The anthropological method of comparing several cultures existing simultaneously in the same laboratory is decades old, yet rarely has it been utilized with the competence and concern for theoretical issues seen in Northern Plainsmen. Studying Indians, ranchers, farmers, and Hutterites, John Bennett has described the evolution of the four adaptive strategies used on the Great Plains of west-central Canada.-
--Mark P. Leone, Science
"Bennett's Northern Plainsmen provides a first-rate analysis of the cultural ecology of a modern agricultural community in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada.... The volume provides the non-anthropologists with a well-conceived study of the anthropological approach to modern cultural adaption.... [T]he author has contributed a thoughtful analysis of an interesting problem."
--George J. Armelagos, American Scientist
"This is a study in cultural ecology involving the adaptive processes and relations of four groups: Plains Cree, cattle ranchers, wheat farmers, and Hutterites of southwestern Saskatchewan over a sixty year period.... Bennett has aptly demonstrated the falsity of the belief that anthropologists can learn nothing from a study of their own culture. The book merits reading by all those who are interested in ecology, economic anthropology, and culture change and is a significant addition to the relatively meager amount of anthropological information on Western culture."
--Chalres A. Bishop, American Anthropologist
"The anthropological method of comparing several cultures existing simultaneously in the same laboratory is decades old, yet rarely has it been utilized with the competence and concern for theoretical issues seen in Northern Plainsmen. Studying Indians, ranchers, farmers, and Hutterites, John Bennett has described the evolution of the four adaptive strategies used on the Great Plains of west-central Canada."
--Mark P. Leone, Science
"Bennett's Northern Plainsmen provides a first-rate analysis of the cultural ecology of a modern agricultural community in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada.... The volume provides the non-anthropologists with a well-conceived study of the anthropological approach to modern cultural adaption.... [T]he author has contributed a thoughtful analysis of an interesting problem."
--George J. Armelagos, American Scientist
"This is a study in cultural ecology involving the adaptive processes and relations of four groups: Plains Cree, cattle ranchers, wheat farmers, and Hutterites of southwestern Saskatchewan over a sixty year period.... Bennett has aptly demonstrated the falsity of the belief that anthropologists can learn nothing from a study of their own culture. The book merits reading by all those who are interested in ecology, economic anthropology, and culture change and is a significant addition to the relatively meager amount of anthropological information on Western culture."
--Chalres A. Bishop, American Anthropologist
"The anthropological method of comparing several cultures existing simultaneously in the same laboratory is decades old, yet rarely has it been utilized with the competence and concern for theoretical issues seen in Northern Plainsmen. Studying Indians, ranchers, farmers, and Hutterites, John Bennett has described the evolution of the four adaptive strategies used on the Great Plains of west-central Canada."
--Mark P. Leone, Science
