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Author Anderson, Kat, 1955-

Title Tending the wild : Native American knowledge and the management of California's natural resources / M. Kat Anderson.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 526 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-470) and index.
Contents pt. I. California at contact -- 1. The wildlife, plants, and people -- 2. Gathering, hunting, and fishing -- 3. The collision of worlds -- pt. II. Indigenous land management and its ecological basis -- 4. Methods of caring for the land -- 5. Landscapes of stewardship -- 6. Basketry : cultivating forbs, sedges, grasses, and tules -- 7. From arrows to weirs : cultivating shrubs and trees -- 8. California's cornucopia : a calculated abundance -- 9. Plant foods aboveground : seeds, grains, leaves, and fruits -- 10. Plant foods belowground : bulbs, corms, rhizomes, taproots, and tubers -- pt. III. Rekindling the old ways -- 11. Contemporary California Indian harvesting and management practices -- 12. Restoring landscapes with native knowledge -- Coda : indigenous wisdom in the modern world.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Indians of North America -- Agriculture -- California.
Indians of North America -- Agriculture.
California.
Indians of North America -- California -- History.
Indians of North America.
History.
Human ecology -- California.
Human ecology.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- California -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Anderson, Kat, 1955- Tending the wild. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005 0520238567 (DLC) 2004017995 (OCoLC)56103978
ISBN 9780520933101 (electronic book)
0520933109 (electronic book)
1423730410 (electronic book)
9781423730415 (electronic book)
0520238567
9780520238565
1598757962
9781598757965