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Native Americans and the Environment Perspectives on the Ecological Indian / 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.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human-animal relationships--North America.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Philosophy of nature--North America.
- Philosophy of nature.
- Indian philosophy--North America.
- Indian philosophy.
- Ethnoecology--North America.
- Ethnoecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (404 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Native Americans and the Environment brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars whose works continue and complicate the conversations that Shepard Krech started in The Ecological Indian . Hailed as a masterful synthesis and yet assailed as a problematic political tract, Shepard Krech's work prompted significant discussions in scholarly communities and among Native Americans.
- Contents:
- Beyond The ecological Indian / Shepard Krech III
- The ecological Indian and the politics of representation : critiquing The ecological Indian in the age of ecocide / Darren J. Ranco
- Myths of the ecological whitemen : histories, science, and rights in North American-Native American relations / Harvey A. Feit
- 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
- Rationality and resource use among hunters : some Eskimo examples / Ernest S. Burch Jr
- Wars over buffalo : stories versus stories on the northern Plains / Dan Flores
- Watch for falling bison : the buffalo hunt as museum trope and ecological allegory / John Dorst
- Ecological and un-ecological Indians : the (non)portrayal of Plains Indians in the buffalo commons literature / Sebastian F. Braun
- Swallowing wealth : Northwest Coast beliefs and ecological practices / Michael E. Harkin
- Sustaining a relationship : inquiry into the emergence of a logic of engagement with salmon among the southern Tlingits / Stephen J. Langdon
- 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
- Skull Valley goshutes and the politics of nuclear waste : environment, identity, and sovereignty / David Rich Lewis.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-73522-8
- 9786610735228
- 0-8032-0566-X
- OCLC:
- 476036137
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