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1 online resource (xxxiv, 367 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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 Krechs work prompted significant discussions in scholarly communities and among Native Americans. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnoecology -- North America.
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Ethnoecology. |
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North America. |
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Indian philosophy -- North America.
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Indian philosophy. |
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Philosophy of nature -- North America.
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Philosophy of nature. |
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Human-animal relationships -- North America.
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Human-animal relationships. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Harkin, Michael Eugene, 1958-
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Lewis, David Rich.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Native Americans and the environment. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007 9780803273610 0803273614 (DLC) 2006020776 (OCoLC)70176885 |
| ISBN |
9780803205666 (electronic book) |
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080320566X (electronic book) |
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9780803205970 (electronic book) |
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080320597X (electronic book) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5002 T187 -2007 |
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