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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Native Americans and the environment. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)1002061360 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Eugene Harkin; David Rich Lewis; Judith Antell; Brian C Hosmer; Shepard Krech, III |
ISBN: | 9780803273610 0803273614 |
OCLC Number: | 70176885 |
Description: | xxxiv, 367 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / Judith Antell -- Preface / Brian Hosmer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Michael E. Harkin -- pt. 1. Shepard Krech and his critics -- 1. Beyond The ecological Indian / Shepard Krech III -- 2. The ecological Indian and the politics of representation : critiquing The ecological Indian in the age of ecocide / Darren J. Ranco -- 3. Myths of the ecological whitemen : histories, science, and rights in North American-Native American relations / Harvey A. Feit -- pt. 2. (Over)hunting large game -- 4. Did the ancestors of Native Americans cause animal extinctions in late-pleistocene North America? : and does it matter if they did? / Robert L. Kelly and Mary M. Prasciunas -- 5. Rationality and resource use among hunters : some Eskimo examples / Ernest S. Burch Jr. -- 6. Wars over buffalo : stories versus stories on the northern Plains / Dan Flores -- pt. 3. Representations of Indians and animals -- 7. Watch for falling bison : the buffalo hunt as museum trope and ecological allegory / John Dorst -- 8. Ecological and un-ecological Indians : the (non)portrayal of Plains Indians in the buffalo commons literature / Sebastian F. Braun. pt. 4. Traditional ecological knowledge -- 9. Swallowing wealth : Northwest Coast beliefs and ecological practices / Michael E. Harkin -- 10. Sustaining a relationship : inquiry into the emergence of a logic of engagement with salmon among the southern Tlingits / Stephen J. Langdon -- pt. 5. Contemporary resource management issues -- 11. The politics of cultural revitalization and intertribal resource management : the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission and the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota / Larry Nesper and James H. Schlender -- 12. Skull Valley goshutes and the politics of nuclear waste : environment, identity, and sovereignty / David Rich Lewis -- Afterword / Shepard Krech III -- List of contributors -- Index. |
Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis ; foreword by Judith Antell ; preface by Brian Hosmer ; afterword by Shepard Krech III. |
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"This excellent anthology features 12 articles originally presented at the 2002 conference 'Re-figuring the Ecological Indian.' Of uniformly high quality, the essays respond to Shepard Krech's The Ecological Indian . . . while furthering discussion of historical and contemporary ideas about Native people as ecologists and conservationists. . . . Harkin and Lewis provide an erudite introduction elucidating the complex issues involved in the discussion. . . . This volume provides an important contribution to a critical, ongoing debate."-CHOICE "Because of its deliberate interdisciplinary approach, Native Americans and the Environment with appeal to a wide variety of academics and those who appreciate bona fide intellectual exchange. Yet this book also contributes important commentary on contemporary environmental and resource management debates. Its timeliness adds to its appeal."-Elizabeth James, Alaska History "This book provides a balanced perspective on the history of resource use and the social and political pressures that affected resource use in the past and continue to affect use in the present."-Susan C. Ryan, Journal of American Ethnic History "This is a valuable collection with many carefully documented analyses that speak to the complex and often ambiguous details of Native American environmental relationships, past and present."-Eugene S. Hunn, Western Historical Quarterly "This book will be valuable for anthropologists, historians, educators, resource managers, and the general public interested in learning about Native Americans have been, and are still, front and center in using and managing their environments. . . . Each stand-alone essay is a fascinating look at the state of the debate on Native Americans and their environments."-Great Plains Research "Harkin and Lewis's book is a thoughtful and thought-provoking exploration of these issues which will be profitably read by anyone interested in environmental anthropology, Native North America, Indian-European relations, and cultural identity."-Robert Jarvenpa, Anthropos Read more...


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