Resource managers : North American and Australian hunter-gatherers / edited by Nancy M. Williams and Eugene S. Hunn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Nancy M., editor.

Hunn, Eugene S., editor.

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Section H--Anthropology.

Series:

AAAS selected symposium ; 67.

AAAS selected symposium ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting and gathering societies--Congresses.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Indians of North America--Economic conditions--Congresses.

Indians of North America.

Aboriginal Australians--Economic conditions--Congresses.

Aboriginal Australians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

As environmental management becomes of increasing concern to both industrial and developing societies, it is instructive to look at the fundamental relationship between man and environment as exemplified by the hunter-gatherer cultures, in which resource management was and is vital to the very existence of human life. The authors of this book look at hunting and gathering societies in Australia and North America, searching for the essential, as distinct from local, manifestations of human-environment relations. They examine the availability of resources in relation to the requirements of stable and expanding human populations, explore the ontological and structural principles of ecological relations in these societies, and describe the rationale of geographic boundaries and control of access to resources within and across boundaries. A number of current theoretical issues are addressed: the use of fire as a tool for environmental management; the ecological consequences of seasonal mobility patterns; the functional basis for differing forms of control over resources; the social organization of production, including the symbolism of the sexual division of labor; the tactical exercise of jural rights in the use of resources; and the ecological consequences of religious beliefs. The book concludes with a summary of the case materials in terms of what they contribute to the understanding of hunting/gathering as an "economic" category and to the conflict over management of natural resources where societies of hunter-gatherers are encapsulated within industrial societies.

Contents:

About the Series

Introduction

Mobility as a Factor Limiting Resource Use in the Columbia Plateau of North America

Fire Technology and Resource Management in Aboriginal North America and Australia

To Have and Have Not: The Ecology of Sharing Among Hunter-Gatherers

The Control of Productive Resources on the Northwest Coast of North America

Food-Named Groups Among Northern Paiute in North America's Great Basin: An Ecological Interpretation

A Boundary Is to Cross: Observations on Yolngu Boundaries and Permission

People with "Politicks": Management of Land and Personnel on Australia's Cape York Peninsula

Always Ask: Resource Use and Land Ownership Among Pintupi Aborigines of the Australian Western Desert

Production and Reproduction of Key Resources Among the Tiwi of North Australia

A Conservation Ethic and Environment: The Koyukon of Alaska

The Unity of Hunting-Gathering Societies: Reflections on Economic Forms and Resource Management

Notes:

"First published 1982 by Westview Press."

"Based on a symposium which was held at the 1980 AAAS national annual meeting in San Francisco, California, January 3-8 ... sponsored by AAAS Section H (Anthropology)."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-30985-1

1-000-23797-4

0-429-30456-0

9780429304569

OCLC:

1110009431